By guest contributor Jeremy Jiang, Property Analyst, Atchison Consultants
Australian real estate investment trusts (AREITs), as represented by the S&P/ASX 200 REITs Index, returned 1.2% in August, outperforming the S&P/ASX 200’s return of -2.4 % over the month. Over the 12 months to August 2019, AREITs posted an impressive total return of 19.4% (10.4% higher than the S&P/ASX 200 return of 9.0%). One of the forces responsible for this return was a fall in market interest rates. The...