High-quality properties support their payouts

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These two REITs own some of the best properties in Canada’s biggest cities. Despite the disruptions caused by the work from home and online shopping trends, those high-quality holdings should continue to attract tenants and let these REITs keep raising your distributions. ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $17 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol AP.UN; Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing sector; Units outstanding: 139.8 million; Market cap: $2.4 billion; Distribution yield: 10.6%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.alliedreit.com) owns 200 office buildings and 13 properties under development, mainly in major Canadian cities. Its occupancy rate is 86.8%. With the January 2023 payment, Allied raised your monthly distribution by 2.9%. The new annual rate of $1.80 a unit yields a high 10.6%. In August 2023, Allied sold its three datacentres in downtown Toronto for $1.35 billion. It plans to use $1.0 billion of the proceeds to pay down its debt of $3.83 billion (as of September 30, 2023). The REIT also agreed to sell a Montreal property…