Railroads Are a Very Interesting Industry In short, we decided to take a look at railroads.

Still sticking with the Monopoly theme, we're nonetheless switching away from our typical stock to look at land elsewhere. And there are plenty more to explore from here.īut now that we're essentially out of reporting season for earnings. We've had a great run evaluating all of these REITs. Could this dividend aristocrat be considered a Boardwalk-esque holding? Then, last week, we broke down Federal Realty Investment Trust's ( FRT) Q1 earnings report.

Lesser-known net-lease plays that happened to be the some of the best bargains we could find in today's rather expensive market.

Those that focus on middle-market tenants.

Those that focus on investment-grade tenants.

Next up, we moved on to the net-lease space, breaking down the subsector into three additional categories:

Since those names are too expensive for us right now, we're largely avoiding them due to valuation concerns. Too obviously attractive, actually, as proven by their current valuations. We began by highlighting the multifamily space, which is full of obviously attractive assets.

Based on one of our favorite board games ever here at iREIT - which, coincidentally enough, happens to be based around property management worlds - it explores which real estate investment trusts (REITs) we can buy up in order to create the best-performing portfolio possible. Welcome to the latest episode in our Monopoly Man series. This article was coproduced with Nicholas Ward. Photo by martince2/iStock Editorial via Getty Images

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