<div id="readability-page-1">BAYONNE, NJ - SEPTEMBER 1: The Empire State Building is lit in red, white, and blue behind the Statue of Liberty in New York City to mark Labor Day on September 1, 2025, as seen from Bayonne, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images) Getty Images  If anything taught me that buying real estate through stocks—or better yet high-yielding closed-end funds (CEFs)—is way better than brick-and-mortar, it was my experience renting my Manhattan apartment on Airbnb (ABNB).  If you’re reading this, you might feel the same way. Maybe you’ve had the same experience as the one I’m about to share.  It was about a decade ago, and it was, in short, a nightmare. It seemed like every time I turned around, there was a complaint that the place was too small, or someone had posted a bad review. Or I was staring down a pile of clean-up in the wake of careless renters.  To be fair, maybe the renters had a point that I wasn’t the best landlord. Even then, I was more interested in income investing!  In any event, I quickly concluded what many landlords do: Managing real estate (or doing so the right way, at least), calls for professional staff and management. And besides, as a renter of just one condo, I had little diversification—I was at the whim of the city’s condo market.  Speaking of professional real estate investors, there are signs they’re becoming a problem not only for individual landlords but also for families simply trying to buy their first home. According to a 2023 study by MetLife Investment Management reported by CNBC, institutional buyers may control a full 40% of single-family homes available for rent in the US by 2030.  These well-bankrolled firms are snapping up many of the best condos, and even single-family homes, in major markets.  I don’t know about you, but having little diversification, a lot of work, stiff competition and the hassle of dealing with renters, sounds like running a business—and a tough one at that! Which brings me back to my view that most people are better off with publicly traded CEFs that hold REITs. I base that on three factors (besides the fact that CEFs don’t ask us to do any work!):  MORE FOR YOU  Let’s break down that REITs underperformance a bit more. You can clearly see it in the purple line below, showing the total return of the benchmark SPDR Dow Jones REIT ETF (RWR).  As you can see, from the early 2000s to the pandemic, REITs beat the S&amp;P 500 (in orange) by a wide margin. When you consider that this period includes the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007–2009, you get a sense of the hold real estate has on investors’ imaginations.  REITs bounced back from that mess and resumed their outperformance, which continued up to the pandemic. The reasons for that post-2020 lag included lockdowns, high interest rates (REITs borrow to expand, and higher rates cut their margins), work-from-home and worries about a recession (which, as we repeatedly predicted in this space, never came to pass).  All of these weaknesses are either gone or fading fast. Lockdowns (thankfully!) are a dim memory. The Fed is likely to cut rates as soon as September. By this time next year, in fact, futures traders see the Fed’s target rate a full 150 basis points below where it is now.  Work-from-home? It’s obvious that’s fading fast, too, with more firms saying it lowers productivity and, let’s be honest, empowers workers a bit more than most employers would like.  All of this should kickstart real estate demand, which is why RWR (again in purple below) has started to recover in the last few months, although it’s still well behind the S&amp;P 500.  Ycharts  Many people invest in REITs through RWR, which holds blue chip REITs like warehouse owner Prologis (PLD), data-center landlord Equinix (EQIX) and senior-care REIT Ventas (VTS). RWR also yields 4%, far ahead of the S&amp;P 500’s 1.3%.  But we can do much, much better with CEFs. Consider, for example, the Nuveen Real Asset Income and Growth Fund (JRI), a holding of my CEF Insider service.  JRI is about as diversified as real estate plays come, with 460 holdings, including well-known REITs like senior-care specialist Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), mall owner Simon Property Group (SPG) and Gaming &amp; Leisure Properties (GLPI).  The fund also goes beyond REITs, to infrastructure plays like pipeline operator Energy Transfer LP (ET), which stands to benefit from the Trump administration’s increase in drilling permits. There are even utilities, like Dominion Energy (D). JRI has benefited from utilities’ big recovery since 2023, and more gains are likely, in part due to AI’s voracious power demand.  On the performance front, we see that JRI (in orange below) has posted a return nearly three times that of RWR (in purple) over the last three years, with dividends reinvested:  Ycharts  Speaking of dividends, JRI yields 11.9% today and pays dividends monthly. Moreover, Nuveen (a well-established CEF manager) has boosted JRI’s payout in the last five years.  Income Calendar  Sure, the payout did dip a bit in 2023, but it was modest (and understandable, in light of the sharp rise in rates). And management more than made up for that with two sizeable hikes, starting in late 2024.  Finally, the discount to NAV. As I write this, JRI trades around par, but with the tailwinds forming behind real estate, I expect a premium from this fund in the future. That should give its market price a lift, beyond the growth I expect from its portfolio of REITs and infrastructure plays.  All of this makes now a good time to buy JRI, collect its 11.9% dividend—and let management run the fund’s impressive real estate portfolio for us.  Michael Foster is the Lead Research Analyst for Contrarian Outlook . For more great income ideas, click here for our latest report “ Indestructible Income: 5 Bargain Funds with Steady 10% Dividends. ”</div>

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<p>这篇文章认为，投资于持有房地产投资信托基金（REITs）的上市封闭式基金（CEFs）比拥有出租物业更具优势。作者分享了自己在租赁管理中遇到的挑战，并强调了机构买家在住房市场中日益占据主导地位。文章指出，尽管 REITs 最近表现不佳，但潜在的降息和远程工作的影响减弱等因素可能会提升房地产需求。像 Nuveen Real Asset Income and Growth Fund（JRI）这样的 CEFs 提供了比传统 REIT 投资更好的多样化和更高的收益</p>

11.9% 的股息收益比投资租赁物业更划算