REITs – the best thing since sliced bread or overrated?

In her Surreal Estate column for SFGate, Carol Lloyd ponders the investment potential of real estate investment trusts, noting that investor interest in apartment REITs has risen as the residential real estate market cools, and that some talking heads are talking up commercial REITs, too. “One has to ask whether REITS are the best thing since sliced bread – or has American real estate mania simply moved from the living room floor to the stock market floor?” Llloyd says.