Real Estate Investment Trust

A real estate investment trust, or REIT, is the investment structure invoked in Two indicators for lowering the rent to explain how investors can participate in rental-housing cash flows without personally owning or managing houses. The source treats REITs as one mechanism behind the financialization of single-family rentals after the foreclosure crisis.

In this wiki branch, the concept is narrow: it matters because it helps turn scattered houses into an investable asset category. That shift supports Institutional Single-Family Rental and therefore belongs inside Corporate Landlord Tradeoffs rather than being treated as generic portfolio diversification.

Connections

• Institutional Single-Family Rental - housing ownership category REITs can support.
• Housing Affordability Supply Mechanics - affordability frame affected by finance structures.
• Corporate Landlord Tradeoffs - policy debate around investor-backed landlords.