Is it safe to invest in Blackstone’s BREIT and Starwood’s SREIT?
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are beloved assets among dividend-focused investors. Unlike other companies, these funds are required to distribute most of their income to shareholders each year. Investors can also characterise their distributions as Return on Capital (ROC) instead of income. SREIT and BREIT are private REITsGlobally, REITs have a combined market cap of over $1 trillion, with most of them being in the United States. The biggest of these funds are companies like Prologis, American Tower, Equinix, Welltower, and Simon Property Group. A relatively new class of REITS has com...