A real estate investment trust is a company that owns, and in most cases operates, income-producing real estate. REITs own many types of commercial real estate, including office and apartment buildings, studios, warehouses, hospitals, shopping centers, hotels and commercial forests. Some REITs engage in financing real estate. REITs act as a bridge between the worlds of housing and urban development on one hand, and institutional investors and financial markets on the other. They are typically categorized into commercial REITs (C-REITs) and residential REITs (R-REITs), with the latter focusing on housing assets such as apartments and single-family homes.
Vornado Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust formed in Maryland in 1982, with its primary office in New York City. The company invests in office buildings and street retail in Manhattan.
Commercial property, also called commercial real estate, investment property or income property, is real estate intended to generate a profit, either from capital gains or rental income. Commercial property includes office buildings, medical centers, hotels, malls, retail stores, multifamily housing buildings, farm land, warehouses, and garages. In many U.S. states, residential property containing more than a certain number of units qualifies as commercial property for borrowing and tax purposes.
Forest City Realty Trust, Inc., formerly Forest City Enterprises, was a real estate investment trust that invested in office buildings, shopping centers and apartments in Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and the greater metropolitan areas of New York City, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The company was organized in Maryland with its headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio. As of December 31, 2017, the company owned 29 office buildings, 29 shopping centers, and 78 apartment complexes. On December 7, 2018, the company was acquired by Brookfield Asset Management.
RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust is the second-largest real estate investment trust (REIT) in Canada. As of 2024, it has an enterprise value of approximately $14.3 billion and owns 188 properties with a net leasable area of 33 million square feet. The company properties are located across Canada. The current chief executive officer is Jonathan Gitlin.
An Australian real estate investment trust (A-REIT) is a unitised portfolio of property assets, often listed on a stock exchange such as the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). Such investment structures were known as listed property trusts (LPT) in Australia until February 2008, but were renamed to be more consistent with international terms. Unit trusts of property assets which are not listed on a stock exchange are known as unlisted property trusts.
Cedar Realty Trust, Inc. is a real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers. It is a subsidiary of Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust. As of December 31, 2022, the company owned 19 properties with 2.9 million square feet of leasable space primarily in the Northeastern United States, including 7 properties in Pennsylvania. The company's major tenants are TJX Companies, Kohl's, Shaw's, Dollar Tree, and Walmart. The only notable property owned by the company is The Shoppes at Trexler.
Kimco Realty Corporation is a Jericho, New York-based real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers.
Private equity real estate is a term used in investment finance to refer to a specific subset of the real estate investment asset class. Private equity real estate refers to one of the four quadrants of the real estate capital markets, which include private equity, private debt, public equity and public debt.
NNN Reit, Inc. is a real estate investment trust that invests primarily in high-quality properties that are subject to long-term NNN leases. It is organized in Maryland with its principal office in Orlando, Florida.
The Lightstone Group is a privately held real estate investment company which owns and operates a diversified portfolio of multifamily, office, industrial, hotel, and retail properties. Lightstone has invested directly in individual real estate assets and in real estate operating companies. The company was founded by David Lichtenstein in 1988.
RPT Realty was a real estate investment trust that owned and operated open-air shopping centers. As of December 31, 2022, the company owned 44 wholly-owned shopping centers, 13 shopping centers owned through its grocery anchored joint venture, and 48 retail properties owned through its net lease joint venture comprising 15 million square feet. In 2024, the company was acquired by Kimco Realty. The company was formerly known as RAMCO Properties Trust and Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust.
Prologis, Inc. is a real estate investment trust headquartered in San Francisco, California that invests in logistics facilities. The company was formed through the merger of AMB Property Corporation and Prologis in June 2011, which made Prologis the largest industrial real estate company in the world. As of December 2022, the company owned 5,495 buildings comprising about 1.2 billion square feet in 19 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. According to The Economist, its business strategy is focused on warehouses that are located close to huge urban areas where land is scarce. It serves about 6,600 tenants. Prologis began to expand its non-real estate business, Essentials, in 2022, offering customers solar power, racking systems, forklifts, generators, EV charging infrastructure, and other logistics tech equipment for purchase.
Fundrise is a Washington, D.C.–based financial technology company founded in 2010 that operates an online investment platform. Fundrise has been labeled as the first company to successfully crowdfund investment into the real estate market.
Weingarten Realty Investors was a real estate investment trust that invested in shopping centers, primarily in the Southern United States and primarily with grocery stores as the anchor stores. In August 2021, the company was acquired by Kimco Realty.
Brixmor Property Group is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that invests in shopping centers. As of December 31, 2022, the company owned 373 shopping centers containing 66 million square feet of retail space. The company's largest markets are Florida, California, and Texas. The company's largest tenants are TJX Companies, Kroger, and Burlington.
InvenTrust Properties Corp. is a real estate investment trust that invests in shopping malls. As of December 31, 2023, the company owned interests in 62 properties comprising 10.3 million square feet.
Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust, commonly referred to as Choice Properties, is a Canadian unincorporated, open-ended real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Toronto, Ontario. It is the largest real estate investment trust in Canada, with an enterprise value of $16 billion. It mainly owns Canadian retail properties anchored by its major tenant and majority unit holder, Loblaw Companies, Canada's largest food retailer, which is controlled by the Weston family. It is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Urstadt Biddle Properties, Inc. was a real estate investment trust based in Greenwich, Connecticut that primarily invested in shopping centers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. As of October 31, 2021, the company owned interests in 79 properties comprising 5.1 million square feet of gross leasable area. The company was merged with Regency Centers Corp on August 18, 2023.
Supermarket Income REIT is a British property investment company which invests in retail property and holds a large portfolio of supermarket buildings. It is structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT) that is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
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