What Are REITs?

Real estate investments can come in many forms. A REIT is just one of them.

What Are REITs?: "A real estate investment trust (REIT) is a real estate company that offers common shares to the public. In this way, a REIT stock is similar to any other stock that represents ownership in an operating business. But a REIT has two unique features: its primary business is managing groups of income-producing properties and it must distribute most of its profits as dividends." Read more of this guest article.