REIT is good to keep long term for dividends...

STAREIT :

1) is a pure-play hospitality REIT,almost all property under long term lease already.Hence it's income is predictable
2) no major upside due to fixed lease rate.Only 5% increment of lease rate for every 5 years (if i'm not mistaken)
3) low gearing

So if u doesnt mind collecting around 6.9 cents pa for the next 5-10 years( if there is no further injection aka buying new properties ) and without hoping much on capital appreciation , then it is a good choice.

Dividend yield around 6-7 % and with current price it is still trading below NAV.

My point of view 

Its local hotels (which is the majority of its current assets) has 15 years lease with slight increment of lease rate every 5 years. So stable income for sure. And I think it also has one hotel in Japan.
Injection of the 3 Marriott Hotels in Australia, if successfully by end of this year, may double its market capital size. Yield may raise by 20-30% when getting full earnings from these new assets.
fyi, JAPAN$ gain 80% and AUS$ gain 50% in past 20 years.

Accumulated quite enough already in past few weeks at 1.03-1.04. 
How about 1.25 by year end? My wet dream. 

The election issue is overly exaggerated.

We do not know when is the election, how is the election outcome will be.

The one to determine whether want to invest or not, is about personal view on the pricing of the reit, aka whether it is worth or not to invest at current level.

We don't have crystal ball to predict whether the price will drop or not when election time, it is uncontrollable factor, the only controllable factor by one is whether to buy or not to buy at current level or now.
Never predict the market will fall or rise.
If view pricing is too high, just stay away, and wait.
If view pricing is ok, then justify by oneself whether to enter now or not.

Never think of tomorrow price will rise or drop, then use it to justify what to do now. It is not investing, but more like betting already.

Is there any news on Starhill Reit? I help to push it up today.

Maybe you can thanks me. I have been accumulating and help push it up.
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Hai Sifus,

I'm a newbie to REIT investment.

Can i invest in any REIT?

What is the minimum investment for this investment?

Please advice.

Thanks

Me too, waiting. But I have more patient than you. I'm no rush, I can wait.
The acquisition of Australia's hotels is not completed yet. I bet price will only surge after the announcement of that.
No intention to sell it anyway until yield reaching below 6% then only consider to sell some off. 

AMFIRST shareholder kena con 1st time.

KLCCP trading halt.. Something might happening

Approved long time ago loh, I think. 
Not much response yet....which I believe will happen soon. Just my wet dream.