I blogged about Soilbuild REIT slightly more than a year ago. It did badly during its IPO and I said that, already having a huge exposure to industrial properties S-REITs then, I was not interested even as its unit price declined to 70c.
At the time, I also told a reader that if the REIT's unit price should decline so much as to offer a 10% distribution yield, I would initiate a long position even with my already large exposure to industrial properties S-REITs. That didn't happen.
Since then, the REIT's unit price has recovered thanks, to a large degree, to Chinese billionaire Tong Jin Quan who bought into the REIT. The more sanguine attitude Mr. Market has towards REITs in recent months probably has a large part to play in the price recovery too.
Of course, since then, my exposure to industrial properties S-REITs has also reduced by quite ......