Possibilities: more people "wants in" on REITs? due to fears/uncertainty + QE primed cash looking for assets?
Where's my crystal ball....

What are the arguements for S-REITs vs M-REITs?

Another possiblity: People like WongMunKeong, Neo, myself et al have been buying this asset class and that is why the price has been going up up & up.

Serious reply: REIT as an asset class has been more in the radar of investor starting from 2011. There are more media exposure on this asset class. The StarBiz, The Edge and Personal Money all ran article on this asset class not too long ago.

Xuzen

REITs was also featured in Buletin Utama not too long ago as well. And new high profile reits also receive wide media coverage. eg. Pavreit

Which REIT is worth buying now taking into consideration the price suddenly spike up since last December.

First time investor in REIT.

I also wanna invest in REIT for my first time... Plan to go OSK tomorrow and open a CDS account... Went during Monday but I don't know that I need to bring my bank passbook...

I looked at the price history of most REITs in Malaysia, the increasing price seems discouraning me to buy REITs now. Is this a good time to invest in REITs now?

This post has been edited by jeenhao: Mar 7 2012, 02:05 PM

I was hoping Tower Reits would drop below 1.30 after recent div ex date... now price hit 1.34...aiya

Try ARreit. The NAV is at RM 1.01 i think and now market priced at RM 0.91 only. If that is what you prefer.

Why do REIT stocks in Malaysia have such low volumes?

Is it a problem for you guys regarding liquidity?

Wanna start invest soon, and REITs seem like the safest stocks to start with.

I was told retail REITS (CMMT, SUNREIT, PAVREIT, HEKTAR) are the safest, what say you?

This post has been edited by bryan5073: Mar 7 2012, 07:43 PM

What about Starhill reit? Price around RM0.91 also, NAV is around 1.14...

Looks like you already have the answer for your own question ?

What I mean is, almost all (I think is all) REITs are raising price since last year Nov and Dec... I wonder if the price will drop later. My question is... Is this a good timing to buy REITs?

I think during uncertain times, people tend to move their cash to safer assets, and reits are some of the safer assets. That's why they've been on the rise.

Plus some more, like somebody said earlier, reits have been under our local media coverage lately.

So perhaps these 2 factors has caused the rise in price of reits.

Correct me if i'm wrong

I think it's right... Sad that I didn't start investing last year... But I guess it isn't too late?

Will the price increase in the near future?

Haha beats me. I also haven't started to invest yet coz no $$$ But i've been learning a lot

I guess we really missed the the dip last August...

That was a great time to go shopping!

Let us buy some REITs now

Haha sure, u go buy first la, I still need to accumulate some cash...

Let me know how well they do

Later I will go OSK and open a CDS and start buying later maybe? I think I am aiming Starhill REIT first... Buy 500 units and see first

Why 500units. You got free brokerage fee is it?

Everybody was panic

I think many of us have stop-loss strategy, e.g. If price drops by 10%, sell!