Will the incredible outperformance of the REIT industry ever subside?
Despite a residential real estate market that has been struggling since the crash of 2008, real estate investment trusts (REITs) have defied cynics (and logic) and trounced the performance of the broader market.
"In 2013, we think we will continue to see improving economic fundamentals that help drive real estate performance," Brackston Helms, senior vice president of national accounts with CNL Securities Corp., told AdvisorOne at FSI's 2013 OneVoice conference in San Diego on Tuesday.
He explained that non-traded REITs are an institutional class investment that is experiencing an interesting time.
Non-traded REITs are an alternative yield investment, Helms added, which can be of value in an artificially suppressed interest rate environment where yield is low or nonexistent.
"Where someone like my dad can get yield," he quipped.
Alternative investment markets have a strong interest in health care facilities at the moment, fueled by demographic support from baby boomers. Helm's firm sponsors CNL Healthcare Properties which announced on January 10 that it has acquired 10 senior living communities through two separate transactions totaling $158.2 million. The purchases add a combined 671 senior living units to CNL Healthcare Properties' portfolio.
