By guest contributor Jeremy Jiang, Property Analyst, Atchison Consulting
Australian real estate investment trusts (AREITs), as represented by the S&P/ASX 200 REITs Index, returned 4.2% in June, outperforming the S&P/ASX 200’s return of 3.7% over the month. Over the 12 months to June 2019, AREITs posted an impressive total return of 19.3%, which was 7.8% higher than the S&P/ASX 200 (11.5%). One of the forces responsible for this return was a fall in market interest rates. The Australian...