While share Initial Public Offers (IPOs) are quite common and allow you to invest in the shares of a company, Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) IPOs are rarer. Nexus Select Trust REIT IPO is one such offering. It is because REITs are specialized investment avenues, different from the basic equity and debt instruments. Let’s understand what they are.
What are REITs?
A REIT is a company engaged in real estate investment. The company either owns or finances real estate properties that have the potential to generate income.
REITs are professionally managed portfolios, like mutual funds. They do the following:
- Collect investments from different investors
- Pool the collected investments into a corpus
- Use the pooled corpus to invest in or finance properties
The properties were bought to create regular income through rent generation.
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What are REIT IPOs?
REIT IPOs allow REITs to be listed on the stock exchange. This makes it easier for investors to buy or sell their shares in the investment fund.
About Nexus Select Trust REIT IPO
Nexus Select Trust, sponsored by Blackstone, is launching a new REIT IPO to raise funds from prospective investors. The details of the IPO are as follows:
The funds raised from the IPO would be used for the following activities:
- Complete or partial repayment, prepayment, and redemption of specific debts of the asset SPVs and investment company
- Debt redemption in specified asset SPVs
- Stake acquisition in specified asset SPVs
- Other corporate general purposes
About Nexus Select Trust
One of India's leading real estate investment trusts, Nexus Select Trust, operates across 14 Indian cities, including the metros and tier-II and tier-III cities. Some interesting facts about the company are as follows:
- The company’s portfolio consists of 17 Grade A consumption centers, which are the best-in-class. Besides having a leasable area of 9.2 MSF, the portfolio has two complementary hotels and three office assets.
- As of December 31, 2022, the company had over 1000 high-quality retail tenants with 2893 stores. The leading tenants include ALDO, Zara, Superdry, Shoppers Stop, Croma, etc.
- Between June 2018 and 2022, the company had 90% same-store occupancy.
Financial performance of Nexus Select Trust
Here’s a look at the financial performance of the company over the last couple of years:
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Risks and strengths of the IPO
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What should you do?
The performance of REITs in India has consistently been higher than that of those globally. Since April 2019, the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of Indian REITs has been 13.4%. As such, REITs have good potential for investors. The low-cost nature of the IPO makes it attractive to investors.
Understand the risks and benefits of the company and the proposed IPO. You can invest in the REIT IPO if you are looking for portfolio diversification and regular returns. Being the first REIT IPO in the retail space, you might benefit from the IPO’s uniqueness and growth potential.
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