Activist investor Jonathan Litt is at it again. The activist investor, specializing in real estate investment trusts, started his firm, Land & Buildings, in 2008 and has been battling real estate investment trust (REIT) boards to improve returns for himself and other investors ever since. Litt has waged several successful campaigns at BRE Properties, Associated […]
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This “Thanksgiving Surprise” Gave Us the Best Stock to Buy Now
In the current environment, with interest rates rising and inflation still threatening the U.S. economy, it is hard to find many who are bullish on real estate. Momentum is very negative, and that will not change overnight. However, when everyone hates a sector, as currently seems to be the case with real estate-related securities, it […]
This Farmland REIT Just Raised Its Dividend By 20%
There is an asset class that’s worth around $3 trillion in the United States. Yet, it is completely ignored by Wall Street and is rarely on investors’ radar screens. The asset class I’m talking about is farmland. No matter the current economic There are already a lot of people to feed—about 7.9 billion—and that number […]
One REIT to Buy Now
Self-storage real estate investment trusts (REITs) own, operate, and manage mini-warehouse storage facilities at which people pay to store items they do not need immediately, but do not want to discard. Recently, investors have not stored these shares for safekeeping in their portfolio. Instead, they have sent the stocks of self-storage operators straight to the […]