How to buy public offering REITs?
1, public offering REITs are divided into online and offline sales, and offline investors need professional institutional investors, which is actually similar to offline innovation, and this part is participated by professional institutional investors.
2. Subscribe through off-site direct sales and consignment agencies, or through the channels of on-site subscription by brokers. Investors who participate in the on-site subscription of infrastructure funds shall hold on-site securities accounts; Investors who participate in the OTC subscription of infrastructure funds shall hold OTC fund accounts.
3. If you buy stocks for trading through a securities account, you must first open an account with a securities firm. Since publicly offered REITs are listed on Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange respectively, you need to have two exchange accounts. Generally speaking, they will be opened at the same time as brokers open accounts.
Simply put, real estate investment trusts earn profits by raising funds from many investors to invest in real estate assets. Compared with stocks and bonds, REITs have the characteristics of relatively medium risk and medium return. The income of REITs mainly comes from the cash flow contributed by the basic assets, and also shares the value-added income of the basic assets, which has the characteristics of both equity and debt. In the long run, REITs products can be used as one of the important asset allocation in the portfolio.