1) For me, I determine how much yield I want. Very simple it must beat malaysia's amanah saham in the long run.
A 5.75% yield can beat a 6%+ amanah saham over long period of time.
Eg. You know a reit can give 6%+ yield but right now it's giving 5.8%+ yield, do you want it or do you want to wait? I will wait. (eg. CCT at current price. Will I buy CCT? No. See reason 9. If they give me 7%, yes, I will take not 6% )
2) How much debt it have
- again this is not set in stone. Lower debt of course better la. But Mapletree greater china IMO is better than capital china retail eventhough mapletree have ~40% gearing -way higher than Capitalland. But we need to see, mainland china are esavvy shopper. In china, you have online store everywhere (alibaba, 360, baidu, tencent, xiaomi, etc) We all know that amazon is beating the crap out of brick and mortar shopping lot. Do we still want capital china retail? If Fortune reit (a HK reit with shopping malls can survive HK, then shopping mall can still survive in HK). Fortune reit would be better option shopping reit vs Mapletree GCC but Fortune reit dividend only 5+% vs 7%+ of mapletree. Next thing you do is look at the mall owned by Mapletree. Is it it good? Even though it's only one mall, but it's a higher version of vivocity. I will bite but not now. Anyway with that high gearing, sooner or later Mapletree will have to issue rights.That time, price will drop. Div yield may reach 8%+
3) Occupancy rate - the higher the occupancy, the higher the rental (not always true but having the place occupied and people paying rental is better than vacant), does it beat it's peer.
4) Types of building and location
5) Whether it achieve (+) rental reversion
6) NPI - a good reit should increase NPI
7) How the reit manager handle bad times (CMT, FCpT, FCT, CCT, Aims)
8) Read blogs (investmentmoat, fifth person, turtle investor (he's mostly index investor but sometimes does reit review), assi (some I don't agree like ASSI going for Capitalland China Trust and Starhill Global) does good reviews on reit
9) I am sucker for diversification. That's why my reits I choose are not all pure play SG-reit (Hence FCT, MLT and MCT is in my portfolio)
10. I want access to certain market but do not wish to pay withholding tax (I at looking at you AU and US). Hence I add FLT and manulife US when the time is right. Both does not incur 30% withholding tax.
20. How to know price high or not? Use google finance to find out. They have nice chart which shows previous prices.

My goal (when I started in Jan) is buy at whatever market price and collect dividend first. Later when opportunities present itself, use dividend collected to average down. A bad strategy but so far it works. Some of my reits I bought at market price giving me 7-9% paper gain (including latest dividend). If opportunity present itself to average down, I will take it. There's still some reits on my shopping list I have got yet. See eg in reason 1.

Right now, not buying anything. No money. No discount.

Sorry for long post.

agree with bro ram, decide what is your aim (return %) and work from there.

of course everyone wants to buy cheap but when is cheapest? I also bought at "high" time but if the return satisfy your aim, you should buy and "worry" when it goes down. if the fundamental of the REIT convinced you to buy back then, you should buy more when it goes down?

Now no need to queue. Sit back and enjoy dividend. When news come out that Fed going to hike/after fed hike then queue. They still have 2 more hikes to go.
1. Immediately transfer my money from Malaysia to SG, use whatever dividend I have + cash in SG and buy. Not everyday you get CMT, FCpT dividend at say 6.5% or 7%. Not sure if I will whack reits or whack other counter. Too much choices. You need to ask yourself, why did you buy the counter in the first place. That's why I perfer counters with zero debts or debt/asset ratio of <1. When a counter does not have debts, no one can force it into bankruptcy.
2. Best amount should be 0.12%/0.18%/0.2% (depending on what broker you are using) of your buying cost but that's too high for us earning RM So I use more or less half of it. Don't have so much money either. So if your broker charge you 0.12% or min SGD10, you should buy at  SGD8333.33 (ideally based on SGD10/0.0012, if 0.18% or SGD18 should be SGD10k). I am using SG broker as example here not Malaysian broker as an example.
3. Use the following website to determine
http://reitdata.com/
http://www.investmentmoats.com/DividendScr...endScreener.php

huh?

no need 5k to 9k per transaction. Brokerage only min SGD 10...

when i started years ago. i just buy 1000units to test... and annual div will recover the brokerage.

If u think gonna be worse. then why u think want invest in REITS?

You can buy SGD1k too but SGD1k charge SGD10, SGD5k also kena charge SGD10, SGD9k also kena charge SGD10. So you decide. No hard rule that you must buy that amount. Cause if you buy SGD1000 and kena charge SGD10 = 1% brokerage fees. I am trying to reduce my brokerage fees where possible.

You are working in SG. You have the advantage over us. We are earning RM. Need to convert. SGD is 3xRM. No conversion on your part.

Sure why not. You can divide SGD15k into SGD3k/reit. If you can wait, until you have SGD20k then you can divide them into SGD4k equally.

You need to determine your investing strategy. Dividend investing/value investing/trading. But I still trust reits. Of course if there are other counter which are worth keeping, I am going to buy it.

What do you it is likely to go worse ? If the yield not attractive, just wait. It's perfectly fine to wait on the sidelines.

Btw, do you have emergency cash supply up? Do not invest if you do not have emergency cash supply.

Use FSM sg.
Yes can.

Ran into some issue with tradestation global with rights. Something about being  a priority customer. Will test again if got rights some more. One test not conclusive.

Can. Maybe I wrongly filled up the form.

No. It's corporate exercise which they send to you and you need to key in some your choices online. No form.

wongmunkeong Are you investing through FSM Singapore? I bought some IREIT Global and maybe will buy some KepPacOakReitUSD through FSM Singapore which charges dividend Handling Fee of USD 3 of gross dividend (applicable on US based ETF/Stocks) that are in SGX. Not sure whether IREIT and KepPAcOakReitUSD falls under this category which FSM will charge USD3. Any idea?
Anyone, is REIT considered a unit trust or is it considered a stock?

According to FSM, both ireit and KORE, no dividend handling charge

Hope so too.  Its kinda weird in the sense that under FSM Singapore--HK exchange don't charge for dividend handling charge  while SGX charges dividend handling charge for those USD ETF/stocks

Grab a bit
FCT 1.60
MCT 1.49
AIMS 0.98
Sasseur 0.535
UOB 18.8

Looking at the way US is, I believed a second wave is coming for them   

DIVIDEND
ANNOUNCED ON  2020-04-22
Rate or Price :

Declared Rate: SGD 0.0091 per security/unit
Cash Option 001: SGD (Default Option)
Tax Rate: 17%

Cash Option 002: SGD
Tax Rate: 10%

Cash Option 003: SGD

anyone knows how to subscribe to IREIT rights via IBKR? i saw the rights in 'Portfolio' page but in 'Corporate Action Manager' don't see it there or any option to subscribe

Price shot up. Didn't grab. Oh well, I grab, wouldn't be have money left to do options and generate "DIY dividend"/premium. Guess a blessing in disguise.

Only do on stocks you want to hold long term or don't mind picking it up. Do not do on stocks you don't want to pickup or hold long term. That's rule number one.

No problem. Here's the list. May not be accurate as some I have moved on. Which one still active up to you to guess.
Apple, Taiwan semi conductor, Visa, Nvidia, AMD, lemonade, palantir, tattooed chef, crowdstrike, docusign, square, sea ltd, fiverr, snowflake, arkk.

Planning Microsoft, Salesforce. Home depot, Shopify, Tesla. But no money for it yet.

So what I do and use does not necessarily mean will work with you as I have high risk tolerance.
I think I shared before what stock I used. You can see above.
Thanks for the input. I am still monitoring the news.