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What is REIT?
We know mutual funds, right?
Where money is pooled is pooled from investors and in return are offered mutual funds units.
Similarly, instead of shares of public companies, REIT units represent ownership of real estate assets.
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Once listed, they serve as permanent vehicle to raise debt and equity in the capital markets to acquire new assets & grow.

Weighted Average Lease Expiry (WALE): The biggest risk of running a commercial property is vacancy. WALE is used to calculate the time left for property to go vacant. The higher the better.
By law REITs have to pay 90% of distributable cash flows to investors. It is a metric to measure these payments. However this is
not a guaranteed payout. It depends on the trust performance. Again the higher the better.
higher the occupancy, the stable are the cash flows.