Investing in REITs: Real Estate Investment Trusts by ralph l. block

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April 1,2025

I read this in an effort to broaden and improve my investing skills. REITs, or Real Estate Investment Trusts, are like mutual funds of real-estate assets (typically this means either managed properties or mortgage notes), and Investing in REITs explains just about everything one might want to know about the subject. This includes a formal definition of REITs, coverage of the different types of REITs, and how to decide whether a particular REIT is a good investment and what its fair value should be. It’s hard to say anything bad about the quality of the content, but I did discover that I didn’t really need to read an entire book about REITs to understand their pros and cons; a short blog post or 5-page article would have served me just as well.

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onebitebeom

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April 1,2025

Not for the average retail investor; it gives great holistic advice on what REITs are and the history behind them however this is not the most friendly read and most nights I was asleep after reading three pages. Great information overall though

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ExarchOfAfrica

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April 1,2025

Reads a little like an academic textbook but otherwise is a good introduction to REITs. Offers a global perspective on the topic with discussions of listings in countries such as Hong Kong and Singapore.

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Josiah-Joestar

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April 1,2025

A great intro to the world of REITS. I am halfway done and have learned quite a bit. If you are interested, it would be worth your time to pickup.

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NotReshi

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April 1,2025

I picked up this book because there are not very many books about this subject and I had the impression this must be a well-written book for the fact it is the 4th edition of the title. Unfortunately, I found this book very wordy, repetitive, boring, and harder to decipher than some of the legal documents and texts I had read in the past. The author warns at the beginning that the book is written for professional people; however, the concepts and the subject matters explained the book are pretty basic. Like a successful real estate investor once told me: investing in real estate is not rocket science but it involves a lot of details. It really takes some hard work to take basic concepts and making them sound so complex and difficult to understand. (For example: one sentence in the book is 12 lines long.) Two and a half stars.

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PopAnime123

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April 1,2025

This was a good in-depth book on REITs. It analyzed the history, legality, and details of what REITs are while also giving a few considerations for their future. This was definitely a good starting place for building a base of understanding with REITs.

Warning to future readers: this book is more like a textbook or meta-analysis.

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