@pjreddy Mimicks my thoughts. I believe he has a seperate buyer lined up for Jackson Park hence the sudden writedown adjustment. Also the California property and maybe something in Austin as he has singled that one out. Agree especially on NCIB procrastination.
Over the past week I consolidated my #REIT exposure by adding more $HR.UN which feels like by far best-risk-reward in space. Did initiate a $CAR.UN position but brought it down to ~3% pf weighting after second thoughts. Wanted to add more to a couple big US food space $KHC $CAG.
Lots of REITs don’t make sense in public markets. They lack scale and aren’t efficient as they should be. They also got involved in too many different asset types. Cap rates are lower in private markets too. HR-U is a good example of that.
They have now disposed assets to focus their capital base. Like other recent buyouts with mutli-family housing, private markets value them more highly than public markets.
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RBC analyst comments on $HR.UN. I still think there is good upside from here. The units hit a high of $12.77 last summer after initial discussions with suitors came to light, and as RBC notes, conditions to sell have improved since.
@Rocky46215911 I don't have a timeline. Hofstedter alluded to something brewing on the last call so I assume by EOY so I'll roll with that. Probably already had something in mind with Blackstone given their interest/process of last year and finetuning since.
$MRC.TO issues 4.3% 'unsecured' debentures to redeem 9.5% debentures issued a few years' ago. That's what the end of commercial real estate looks like just like all the gurus on Twitter predicted over the past few years. One of the names I may cycle more capital into this year.
@AncientSion@PiotrPon $HR.UN is almost entirely US residential (Class A) and very strong remaining Canadian, mostly GTA, Class A industrial portfolio. US res is 5% cap & Canadian industrial is max 5.5%. Remaining offices are liquid & land may be sold. Implied cap is around 7.4% right now. 📈🚀
@AncientSion Pretty impressive! Congrats. I think Hofstedter can score $15+ if he sells Gowanus and Caledon lands as he noted ont he call before the industrial and retail. Blackstone pay decent prices and $HR.UN has best in class stuff.