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Real estate makes up the largest asset class in the world. Much larger than bonds and stocks, which respectively rank second and third by total market cap. Real estate investing involves the purchase, management and sale or rental of real estate for profit. Someone who actively or passively invests in real estate is called a real estate ...
A real estate investment trust (REIT, pronounced "reet" [1]) 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. [2]
The five largest REITs in the United States are: American Tower Corporation, Prologis, Crown Castle International, Simon Property Group and Weyerhaeuser. [1] Notable publicly traded real estate investment trusts based in the United States include: Company Name. REIT Type. Ticker Symbol.
Real estate economics is the application of economic techniques to real estate markets. It aims to describe and predict economic patterns of supply and demand. The closely related field of housing economics is narrower in scope, concentrating on residential real estate markets, while the research on real estate trends focuses on the business ...
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.
Investing in a real estate investment trust (REIT) allows you to benefit from the real estate market without the hassles of property ownership, such as tenant management or maintenance issues.