REITs explained - A property expert explains the next investment hotspots

This week on the Friends With Money podcast, Money's editor-in -chief Michelle Baltazar speaks with Justin Blaess, principal and portfolio manager at REIT specialist Quay Global Investors, to explain real estate investment trusts (REITs) and how investors can earn investment income through them.

They discuss REITs as listed businesses that owns buildings and collect rent, how the sector has evolved since the late 1990s and the GFC, and new opportunities beyond traditional retail, office, and industrial.

01:05 What Is a REIT?

01:48 How REIT investing evolved

03:29 Investment hotspots: data centres, storage and senior living

05:59 Expected returns basics

09:34 Interest rates myth

12:43 How to start investing

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