By guest contributor Jeremy Jiang, analyst, Atchison Consultants Australian real estate investment trusts (AREITs), as represented by the S&P/ASX 200 REIT index, returned 1.7% in December, outperforming the S&P/ASX 200, which returned -0.1% over the month. Over the 12 months to December 2018, AREITs posted a total return of 2.9%, which was 5.7% higher than the S&P/ASX 200. December featured announcements from a number of AREITs regarding portfolio evaluations and also...