Yes, interest rates are (very likely) going to be lowered, judging from the message given by the United States Federal Reserve last week. Soon, financial news and blogosphere were filled with questions like the blog title above, or something similar. It is natural for investors to ask such a question as REITs, or real estate investment trusts, are a leveraged asset class, and a fall in interest rates meant that cost of loans would go down, which subsequently increases distributions. Picture generated by Meta AI To answer the question, I would dish out the same old answer which I love to dispense; it depends. Ideally, a good time to buy REITs would be when they were at their lowest and/or weakest. Using the iEdge S-REIT Leaders Index, during the past five years, the two weak points were sometime in March 2020 (COVID-19) and October 2023 (accelerated interest rate growth). Granted that these were hindsight views and true bottoms...