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Please note that the Securities and Exchange Commission has cautioned investors about unsolicited "mini-tender" offers for investment shares below market value. To learn more, investors may visit the SEC's site devoted to this topic at www.sec.gov/
investor/pubs/
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A real estate investment trust (REIT) is a company that makes investments in real property, such as apartments, office buildings, industrial buildings and shopping centers. The U.S. Congress created the legislative framework for REITs in 1960 to enable the general public to benefit from investments in large-scale real estate enterprises. |
Since then, the REIT industry has grown from an aggregate equity market capitalization of less than $2 billion in 1972 to well over $300 billion today. |
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Recognizing the importance of the real estate sector in public capital markets, in 2001 Standard & Poor's added REITs to its widely followed S&P 500 Index for U.S. equity markets. REITs may or may not be listed on a public stock exchange. |
The photographs on this page are of properties acquired by affiliates of Paladin REIT.
Paladin REIT does not own and will not acquire these properties. |
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