ADVANTAGES of Real Estate Investment

Posted on May 12, 2008
Filed Under FFO, GAAP, Investments, NAV, REITs, Real Estate, Revenue Stream, commercial properties, income, r.e. investment, rents

In addition to the investment performance and portfolio diversification benefits available from investing in REITs, REITs offer several advantages not found in companies across other industries. These benefits are part of the reason why REITs have become increasingly popular with investors over the past decade:

Predictable Revenue Stream

REITs’ reliable income is derived from, rents paid to the owners of commercial properties, whose tenants often sign leases for long periods of time, or interest payments from the financing of those properties. In addition, the companies’ ownership of tangible assets with established values tends to reduce risk.

Earnings Transparency

Most REITs operate along a straightforward and easily understandable business model: By increasing property occupancy rates and rents, higher levels of income may be produced. When reporting financial results, REITs, like other public companies, must report earnings per share based on net income as defined by generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).

Another way year-to-year financial progress can be gauged is by comparing levels of Funds From Operations (FFO). FFO, the industry’s supplemental performance measure, differs mainly from net income by excluding depreciation and amortization of real estate assets and gains and losses from most property sales.

Given the broad range of real estate property sectors and business lines, there also are a number of additional earnings metrics, which are used by REITs in order to provide investors with a greater level of insight into their performance.

REIT Investing In Spain 2008

Many factors affect the value of a REIT’s share price beginning with the earnings tied to oftentimes predictable and growing streams of rental revenue and a price-earnings multiple assigned by the marketplace. Today Spain offers to REIT, prices for rental assets way below 2007. It is market consensus that the market adjustment will give today investor an interesting returns. There is an increasing demand on rentals. REITS are the ideal vehicles to invest in residential to rent. As simple as it may seen, when undervalued assets are bought, REIT´s valuation by NAV improve and many REIT analysts look at net asset value (NAV) as a reference point for the valuation of a company. NAV equals the estimated market value of a REIT’s total assets minus the value of all liabilities.

When divided by the number of common shares outstanding, the net asset value per share is viewed by some as a useful guideline for determining the appropriate level of share price. Thus, the value of a REIT’s shares may be based on the value of its tangible real estate holdings.

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