REITs

How Safe Are REITs?

The biggest threat to REITs is a rise in interest rates, which reduces REIT demand. In a rising-rate environment, investors tend to gravitate toward safer income investments like US Treasuries. Treasury bonds are government-backed and pay a set rate of interest. As a result, when interest rates rise, REITs sell off, while the bond market

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