How REITs Have Performed YTD and What They Tell Us About the Economy
REITS VS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT FUNDS Often confused with real estate investment funds, a REIT (real estate investment trust) is a corporation, trust, or association that invests directly in actual income-generating real estate assets such as industrial buildings, office parks, data centers, self-storage, hotels, or apartments and is traded like a stock. (A good example of a REIT to keep in mind is Prologis.) A real estate fund, by contrast, is a type of mutual…