Best REIT Exchange Traded Funds
Real estate funds use their assets to purchase real estate investment trusts (REITs), which invest in and own commercial real estate properties. Generally, a REIT offers a high yield because it's required to distribute a large amount of its taxable income to its shareholders in the form of a dividend.These top real estate ETFs in 2014 are sorted based on its year to date performance in 2014. You can find the fund details and review below. Some of these ETFs can be bought for free from variety of brokerages such as Fidelity, Schwab, TD Ameritrade, and Vanguard.
Best real estate ETFs 2014 are:
- iShares Residential Real Estate Capped ETF (REZ) – 24.27%
- iShares Cohen & Steers REIT (ICF) – 22.24%
- Schwab US REIT ETF (SCHH) – 21.1%
- SPDR Dow Jones REIT ETF (RWR) – 20.93%
- Vanguard REIT ETF (VNQ) - 20.77%
- Wilshire US REIT ETF (WREI)
- PowerShares Active US Real Estate ETF (PSR)
- iShares Real Estate 50 (FTY)
- First Trust S&P REIT ETF (FRI)
- iShares US Real Estate ETF (IYR)