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How much are nontraded REITs really worth? Nontraded REITs
December 10, 2020 4 MINS
During the credit crisis of 2008, the bottom fell out of many nontraded real estate investment trusts, and financial advisers and customers learned that a REIT’s stated, estimated value, or what showed up on clients’ account statement, and the real value, what the REIT was worth on the street at that exact point in time, could be miles apart.
Nontraded REITs are illiquid securities, meaning that they are opaque and not priced daily by the market. Advisers sell them to investors looking for income and yield; in the past, nontraded REITs carried steep commissions, but the industry has moved away from that compensation model for the past few years.