Read this statement from the news section of my OSK regarding SUNREIT. As I know SUNREIT is going to pay out dividend for the quarter, but what does this statement means.

Golden bro! Made yr killing in metals & filtering for REITs to buy later ar? 

Just my 2cents REITs filter:
1. TWRREIT (office REIT)
Discounting fears of office glut, this counter has been consistent in it's ROTA, ROE & low enough D/E for future expansion via loan debts.
In addition, i think the GOUCO group is behind it.

2. BSDREIT  (plantation REIT)
Weird creature this. It gets $ from rental & mgt + profit sharing of palm oil sold.
Personal view - looking at how food and oil are being "fought" by more & more humans + ROTA, ROE & low enough D/E for future expansion via loan debts, this is in my filtered list.

3. ALAQAR KPJ (healthcare REIT)
Similar to the above financial KPIs. BTW, it NEVER (after end 2009) came down enough for its DY% to be worthwhile for me.
Filtered but havent had the opportunity to buy.

Those are the top 3s for me, IMHO.
I'd sure love to do SUNREIT based on the concept and properties held but so far, numbers dont look great & DY wasnt attractive enough after launch - i no $ allocated to REITs mar after jumping into TWRREIT in Q1 2009 

You're mileage may vary 

Note:
I am holding TWRREIT, BSDREIT & ARREIT (small opportunity buy - D/E and consistency doesnt look too good, just based on DY% and its properties held)
Held HEKTAR & UOAREIT before based on opportunity buys in end 2008 / Q1 2009.

why arreit?

padini more worth it.

Today, bought 6,000 AMFIRST @ RM 1.12 with a DY of 8.6%. Trying to make 60:20:20 [equity:bond:REIT] in my portfolio.

Xuzen

I am waiting for the arreit dividend yesterday, still not yet see the money in the account. Payment date suppose to be yesterday.

Got the cheque in the mail, guess ARREIT not yet move to eDividend.

Yalor, some REITs at bargain price

ah.. so.. MBB.. i was on that during my virgin stock online days. Those days they dont even give interest on $ sitting around in the transaction a/c + it's a b**** to move $ to/fro savings/transaction a/c. Thus, i lari to HLeB heheh. Kiamsiap kui lar i

Arreits DY stands at 9% now.

The result is low because there is no contribution of the new properties yet in the last quarter as paperwork for the acquisition is not yet completed and expected to be completed start 4Q.
So earning for the new hospitality properties only expected to contribute from start from 4Q.

After the completion of properties, Stareit DPU is expected to be around in the region 6.8~6.9 cents pa.

if you are not a resident in Singapore, no need to pay the 7% GST. And the gomen there don't charge stamp duty on buying n selling shares on SGX, unlike in bolehland it is RM1 for every RM1000 or part thereof. So if you buy say 1 lot of RM0.005 share (like a call warrant) you need to pay RM1 stamp duty, but the cost of 1 lot only RM0.50.

If you are planning to buy Singapore reits, I would encourage you to open a SCB online trading account in Singapore. They are taking the market by storm there. No minimum brokerage (currently others charge around S$20 minimum brokerage). Only disadvantage (or perhaps even an advantage) is that it is under SCB nominee account - no direct CDP (equivalent to KLSE CDP) account. So cannot buy IPO.

This is a one time inconvenience to go to singland with some cash with you (I think only S$1000) to open an account there.

it's actually no different than paying for your share purchases in Malaysia when you trade online. What effectively happens is when you open an online account in SCB (or any other bank really) is that you will have to fill up lots of forms. These forms will basically open for you 3 sets of accounts. A savings account, a settlement account and a trading account - all linked together.

And as the SCB trading platform is on a 'cash upfront' basis, you need to transfer money from your saving account to your settlement account. When a purcahse is done, then the money in your settlement acount will be used to pick up your purchases.

One point I forgot to mention earlier is that the min. lot size is in 1000s and not in 100s like KLSE. So it's still quite a challenge to do dollar cost averaging by purchasing over a period of time, unless of course you have lots of $$ or you pick up mainly penny stocks - and there are quite a few good penny stocks to pick up too. Many of the reits there are under a dollar.

Another thing also is that it will generally take about 2 weeks before you can start to trade using SCB. They are so many levels of authentication and your user id and password will be sent to you in separate mails (not email), and even before that they will call you from Singapore on your mobile to verify that it is really you who have gone to opened up the account. But it is all worth it, as far as I'm concerned.

You mean trade through online? I get dividen into my m2u acc since day 1 this arreit.

If you trade through online, should they paid into your acc. Why send via cheque?

My gf also brought this arreit online and got pay dividen into her acc. too.