Real Estate Awards 2015: A profitable time in US real estate

Last year, US Reits racked up total returns of 27.15%, the third time in five years that returns had hit at least 20%. But as expectations mount that the Fed will hike interest rates returns have turned negative, retail investors in non-traded Reits could still get hurt.

by Ben Edwards

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Having enjoyed double-digit returns for years, the gloss has swiftly come off US real estate investment trusts this year: at the end of July, the FTSE NAReit ALL Reit index was returning an anaemic -0.64%. That has prompted some Reit fund investors to start cashing out. 

In the first half of the year, around $4 billion net had been returned to investors, according to data provider Morningstar, the first time investors have withdrawn more money than they’ve put into Reit funds since 2007.

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