A detailed, up-to-date presentation on the fundamentals of REITs -- types of REITs, structures, and 2014 performance. Presented by Milos Milosevic of Capital One at the Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. The event was hosted by the GW Real Estate and Finance Alliance.
2. What is a REIT
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Created under the Real Estate Trust Act of 1960.
An investment vehicle designed to allow a large numbers of
small investors to pool capital and share the benefits of real
estate investment and financing.
Created a tax advantage structure as an incentive, making CRE
assets available to smaller investors
Equity investors are drawn to REITs for high dividend yields
and the ability to gain exposure to CRE without physically
owning property
3. Types of REITs
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(1) Equity REITs
Make up the majority of REITs
Primarily invest in and own interests in real property which are typically
leased to end users
May concentrate on a market segment (i.e., office, multi-family, retail)
(2) Mortgage REITs
Provide real estate financing through mortgages on real property
Acquire existing loans or mortgage-backed securities
(3) Hybrid REITs
4. Public vs. Non-Traded and Private REITs
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Public
File with SEC and traded on the national stock exchange
Self-managed and self-advised
Non-Exchange Traded
File with SEC but not traded. Secondary market
Externally advised and managed
Private
Don’t file with SEC and not listed
Externally advised and managed
5. Qualifying to be a REIT
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Must distribute 90% of all taxable income to investors,
excluding capital gains
mandates fairly low retained earnings policy
has important implications for financing growth
Five or fewer entities may not own 50% or more of the
outstanding shares (the “5/50 Test”)
75% of gross income must be from rents or gains from
sale of real property
95% of gross income must be from dividends, interest,
rents, or gains from sale of stock or other non real estate
investment
6. Qualifying to be a REIT
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May not have more than 10% of voting securities of any
corporation other than another REIT, Taxable REIT
Subsidiary (TRS) or Qualified REIT Subsidiary (QRS)
REITs allowed to own 100% of a Taxable REIT Subsidiary
(TRS) but no more than 25% of REIT’s total assets
TRS can provide services to REIT tenants and others
20. Office REITs
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Full Service Leases
More cyclical than average REIT
Corporate rightsizing
Boston Properties – BXP
SL Green Realty – SLG
Alexandria Real Estate Equities – ARE
Office/Industrial REITs - Stable CF from industrial hedge
more volatile CF from office
22. Office/Industrial REITs
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Stable CF from industrial hedge more volatile CF from
office
Liberty Property Trust – LRY
Duke Realty – DRE
PS Business Parks – PSB
23. Multifamily REITs
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High-rise or garden-style
12- month leases
Agency financing
Equity Residential – EQR
AvalonBay Communities – AVB
UDR – UDR
Essex and BRE merger
Manufactured Homes REITs (trailer parks) – land is
rented
24. Manufactured Homes REITs
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Trailer parks
Land is rented
Equity Lifestyle Properties – ELS
Sun Communities – SUI
UMH Properties – UMH
25. Retail REITs
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Gross or full service leases
Anchor tenants 10-20 year leases
In-line tenants 5-10 year leases
Shopping Center REITs (Kimco, Federal Realty, DDR)
From grocery-anchored to power centers
Mall REITs (Simon, GGP, Macerich)
Malls can be regional or super regional
Anchors draw traffic
NNN REITs (Realty Income, Cole, National Retail Properties)
15-20 year leases with extensions
Most defensive sector
26. Shopping Center REITs
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From grocery-anchored to power centers
Kimco Realty – KIM
Federal Realty Investment Trust – FRT
DDR – DDR
27. Mall REITs
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Regional or super regional
Anchors sometimes own the space
Simon Property Group – SPG
General Growth Partners – GGP
Macerich – MAC
Taubman Centers – TCO
28. Triple – Net REITs
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15-20 year leases with extensions
Most defensive sector
Realty Income – O
Cole Real Estate Investments – COLE
National Retail Properties – NNN
32. Timber REITs
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Acres of timberland
Trees become more valuable as they grow older
Land rises and falls in value along with the going price for
timber
Plum Creek Timber – PCL
Rayonier - RYN
33. Infrastructure REITs
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Leasing antenna space on multi-tenant communications
sites
Wireless service providers, radio and television
broadcast companies, wireless data providers,
government agencies and municipalities.
American Tower Company – AMT
34. Mortgage REITs
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Operate like “virtual banks,” borrowing cheaply short
term and using the proceeds to buy long-dated
mortgages.
41 in the FTSE NAREIT Index – 1 in S&P 600
Residential and commercial mortgages
Annaly Capital –NLY
American Capital Agency – AGNC
Starwood Property Trust – STWD
35. Earnings
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NOI = Rental Revenues – Operating Exp. (taxes and
insurance included)
Same Store NOI – from properties operated for 12
months or more
Organic Growth
Rent growth ( market growth, rent percentage, bumps)
Expense control
Tenant upgrades
Property refurbishments
Sale and reinvestment.
37. Funds From Operations
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Depreciation in real estate
FFO – supplemental measure of earnings
Net Income
+ Depreciation & amortization
-/+ Gains (losses) from operating real estate sold
+/- Income (loss) attributable to minority interest
+ Adjustment for FFO from JVs
= FFO
P/FFO
PEG Ratio = (P/FFO)/FFO growth%
39. Adjusted Funds From Operations
(AFFO)
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More precise measure of earnings – adjusts for
accounting conventions and recurring capex
Properties can decline in value due to obsolescence
Leasing comissions and tenant improvements
Straight-lining of rents
Reasonable measure of operating performance
Cash Available for Distribution (CAD) = AFFO –
Capitalized interest – principal on secured debt
Indicator of dividend safety
40. AFFO and CAD
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FFO
- Recurring Capex
+/- Adjustments for straight-lining of rents
-/+ Gains (losses) from undepreciated properties sold
+/- One time items
+ Stock compensation
+ Amortization of financing costs
= AFFO
- Capitalized interest
- Principal amortization
= Cash Available for Distribution (CAD)
44. Net Asset Value (NAV)
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Current value of real estate properties
Cash NOI x Annual Growth
/ Cap Rate
= FMV of operating properties
+ Cash/Current Assets – Current Liabilities
+ Development Properties
- Debt
- Preferred stock
= NAV/#Shares and OP Units = NAV per share
52. Timber and Infrastructure REITs
Timber REITs (Plum Creek Timber, Rayonier)
Acres of timberland
Land rises and falls in value along with the going price for
timber
Infrastructure REITs (American Tower Company)
Leasing antenna space on multi-tenant communications sites
Wireless service providers, radio and television broadcast
companies, wireless data providers, government agencies and
municipalities.
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Editor's Notes
161/202/90% of EMC publicly traded as of YE 2013. mortgage reit like banks that lend exclusively to real cre developers and landlords. May have a focus on particular types of loans (ie. first mortgages, distressed property mortgages, mezzanine financings). Operate like “virtual banks,” borrowing cheaply short term and using the proceeds to buy long-dated mortgages.
10-15% for broker/dealer commissions. Stocks don’t fluctuate. Trade on NAV – like mutual funds. Minimum holding periods. Liquidation after 10 years or IPO. Private – equity injection from institutonal investors.
Umbrella Partnership/Operating Partnership Units. 1992 TCO. OP-shares is taxable event. Same dividends. OP units for property – “like-kind exchnage” since they’re nottraded so its not a tax event. Many invesors, low tax basis so big tax event. Upon transferred to descendands its market to the market value of reit stocks so the base is reset.
Different leases – different CF. Main Taxes Insurance. Net – R+ M. Double Net – R +T +I. Full Service – office buildings, esc. Clauses, reimbursements. Gross Lease – between NN and Full; tenant pays for CAM.
Simple way of measuring riskiness. CRE is a lagging indicator(depends on the length of the lease). Chart helps predict how reits may trade.
We want to show one of key features of cre – lagging indicator. Because of this there is a disconnect between reit prices and underlying fundamentals. 98-99 tech boom, 04-06 yields, 08-09 residential crisis, 13 – interest rate scare.
Off + Multi = local employment. Industrial + retail = population growth. Healthcare – age of population. Defensive – community shopping + NNN
Equity market capitalization does not include operating partnership units or preferred stock. Health care highest barriers to entry.
Equity REITs are 90.7% of the All REIT Index, Mortgage REITs 9.3%. 26 Home Financing and 15 Commercial Financing Mortgage REITs.
VNO – Office, retail Toys R Us. DLR – San Fran; data centers, industrial, office. WPC – investment manager and advises and sponsor reits office, industrial, student housing, hotel cinemaplex, debt financing for other REIT
Senior/Assisted living, rehabilitation centers. Chicago, Long Beach, Ohio.
Labor expense – high fixed costs. Before 2001 REITs leased their properties to managers – got base level of lease revenue; conflicting operating strategies. REITs – maximize revenue, managers – maximize operating margins. 08 -63% vs -41%; 09- 63% vs 21% -3% GDP
Step-ups with leases. Historical occupancy 88-92%;renewal 65%. Critical to supply chains. Supply tends to stay in line with demand. Demand correlates with cons spending and GDP. 6-9 months to build. PLD – SF; FR – Chicago.
FS Lease – 5 to 7 yrs with extensions. Reimbursement revenue for operating expenses depending on the agreement. TIs are prevalent. Periodic oversupply which affects rents and occ. Demand is local (employment picture) and can change quickly.
21%/ 33%
Duke – Indianapolis; PS – CA
Rents highly correlate with employment trends. Viewed as a defensive play more because of agency financing (inexpensive lines of credit) than demand factors. EQR – Chi; UDR - Colorado
Chaper – popular for retirees and low income workers. Newer ones have pools and modern amenities. Stable annuity, sticky tenants – high costs to move.
Tenant gets billed for CAM. May receive percentage rents. Blackout provisions for small tenants. Neigh. And comm centers amongst most defensive investments – 89-94% historical occupancy. Anchors draw traffic. April 09;$27 B unable to refinance fin crisis and collapse of the CMBS market. Pershing Square Ackman and Brookfield Asset management
Neigh. And comm centers amongst most defensive investments – 89-94% historical occupancy. Anchors draw traffic
Regional 400-800k SF. Super – over 800k. 1-3 anchors. Choice of anchors is crucial. largest real estate bankruptcy April 09;$27 B unable to refinance fin crisis and collapse of the CMBS market. Pershing Square Ackman and Brookfield Asset management
Drug stores, fast food, cinemas. Bond like security but missing on rising rents.
11% owned by top ten operators. 18.7 months average lease term. 30% from commercial (small internet companies, pharma), military and students. Rents fluctuate with season and demand and employment. Scarcity of capital for small guys, internet marketing + improvement. Big guys – 3rd generation properties.
Unlike office buildings trees become more valuable as they grow older. gazillions of acres of trees. And tends to rise and fall in value along with the going price for timber. Dependent on housing industry. acres of timberland and real estate It owns and operates two specialty cellulose mills.
2 REITs – other Power REIT is 14MM market cap.
Rising bond yields have wrecked the book value of the REITs’ mortgage holdings. going forward, a steeper yield curve is actually good, as it increases the spread between the borrowing rate and the lending rate.
NOI is profitability of properties on stand-alone basis. Know what percentage comes from the organic growth – crucial as new capital for acquisitions might not be available or too expensive. Doesn’t require new debt nor equity. Lack of standardized reporting. FFO some might detail the FFO in the IS and some might in the notes.
TRS, advisinjg, developemnt for fees, JVs, investing in other companies (JCP and Toys R Us), mezz loans
Properties appreciate because of rise in value of land, rising rents, increased construction costs, property upgrades. Sales of undepreciatted properties (and) are included. JVs – partnerships in which reit owns less than a controlling interest. High P/FFO – defensive (apts;man. Homes) or high growth potential (malls, hotels in expansion). Lower multiple – loner leases with more predictable CF and cant capitalize on growth (NNN, healthcare). Price multiple to earnings growth ratio – how much do you pay today for company’s expected growth.
FFO – overly rosy picture of earnings. Recurring capex – actual or 2-3 years average. Carpeting, heating, lighitng, dishwashers, stoves etc needs to be replaced and losses value over time. LCs and Tis are capitalized but don’t add to property’s value – real expense. It accounts for one time events (debt prepayment, preferred redemption).
One time items – debt prepayment or preferred redemption
Ordinary – business activities (rents). Capital losses are not passes to investors as they’re not LPs. Returns – if they distribute more than 100% of taxable income. They lower investors base in stock. Jan/Feb press release. VNQ yield of 4.01 -2.75 = 126 bps over 10year. Leases are view as operating expense – paid in bankruptcy and lease term fee after. 08-09 2/3ds suspended dividends to preserve cash. Lower leverage – safer (after debt and preferred). FFO (future) >1 – not good. Higher than industry average not safe.
72% LT average. Low leverage key to dividend safety.
Second major method of share valuation. Cash NOI adjusted for straight line rents
1. Unsecured NOI/Interest 2.0x 2.Unsecured NOI/Debt Service 2.0x. Unencumbered Leverage and corporate leverage <60%. EBITDA/Interest + Preferred
MC of 670BN established class but remain an alternative investment for most investors. 200-300MM influx of funds makes a lot more difference than DJIA of $6T. Cre is a lagging indicator and while reit stocks prices are expectation of future earnings. This disconnect happens often but speically when economy is in transition mode – especially in/out recession.
Strong performance 95-97 and 00-06. they have underperformed sometimes not fundamentals but other market forces. 98-99 tech growth stocks. Cre fundamentals was great. 04-06 rise in the treasuries yield. Reits always compared to them. 00-06 dot com bubble, accounting scandals, 9/11 – investors needed steady visible income. 08-09 residential started it but didn’t matter.