Topic: How To Invest

Q: Pat, what are your thoughts on PRV.UN? Yield looks good at 9%, but is it safe in the long term?

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A: PRO Real Estate Investment Trust, $7.16, symbol PRV.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 37.3 million; Market cap: $267.1 million; www.proreit.com), owns a portfolio of 84 commercial properties across Canada representing a leasable area of over 3.7 million square feet. PROREIT, as it’s also called, has a high overall occupancy of 97.9%. On May 7, 2019, the REIT’s stock market listing moved up to the Toronto exchange from the Toronto Venture Exchange. It also consolidated its shares on a 1-for-3 basis. Established in March 2013, the trust’s 84 properties are focused right now on retail—49 shopping malls, 9 office buildings and 26 industrial and mixed-use buildings. Of those properties, 32 are in the Maritime provinces, 16 in Quebec, 26 in Western Canada and 10 in Ontario. The REIT continues to grow by acquisition: it announced on August 7, 2019, that it had entered into agreements to acquire seven properties for $97.8 million, representing a total of 696,000 square feet of leasable area. The properties include…