Real Estate Investment Trusts: The REIT Way

Friday, January 8th, 2010

In today’s volatile real estate market, should REITs be part of your portfolio? In order to answer that question, you first need to know what REITs are all about.

A Real Estate Investment Trust (commonly referred to by its acronym) is a trust company that gathers a sum of money through an initial public offering, or IPO, then uses that money to manage, develop, buy or sell real estate. (more…)