Is BrickX different to a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)?

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Is BrickX different to a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)?

This is a question our team members get asked a lot – not only by customers, but by friends, family, even total strangers!

The confusion is not unexpected as similarities do exist between BrickX and REITs – both give investors access to purchase units in a property trust. And both can provide investors exposure to the value of these properties in two ways – capital gains, and rental income.

How long have they been around? Although alternate investment strategies, such as fractional investing have recently increased in popularity, the notion of fractionalised investing via property trusts has been around for a while – the first REIT in Australia started in 1971 and today they are 38 REITs listed on the Austra...

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