QUOTE(wankongyew @ Oct 26 2010, 01:24 PM)
Huh? That doesn't make sense. Surely the yield is based on current price. My quick calculation confirms that this is so. NAV is only used to compare the current price to the estimated value of its assets, I thought?
I shortcut too much, sorry for misleading.
What I mean was, when I decide on whether the reit's yield is good(cheap) or not(expensive), I normally look at both the yield and its NAV, in addition to its properties type (be it retails, factory, hospitality, hotel etc.)
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I don't mind to pay a little premium for strategic location retail properties because of its defensive attribute. Meaning, even if the yield is 7.x, I'm fine with it as long as its price/NAV ratio is not more than 1.0.
As for hotel play, since its business highly depends on economic sentiment, I can only accept if its yield is above 7.0 with price/NAV ratio of 0.80 or below. So that at least I know I'm buying at a 20% discount price, that is at a safer zone for the price to drop further when economy goes wrong.
For office/industry/warehouse play, i prefer to get yield of 8.0 or above with price/NAV of 0.90-1.0. As it's a mix of defensive and risk. However, Axreit is a different case. It's too good in stable growth, I won't mind to pay some premium.
I understand most investors don't care about NAV for reits play, and I respect their thoughts. However, I still care. I think if the company got so much value of properties(higher properties price normally comes with higher rental fees), if the management is not too bad, any downside of rental received would be just temporarily.
Just my view lah.