Why Invest in Real Estate?

Why Invest in American Realty Capital Trust?

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Why Invest In American Realty Capital Trust?

Our REIT combines the tradition benefits of investing in real estate with additional factors that can make it an even more appealing investment choice.

These factors include:

Diverse Portfolio of Investments: Our portfolio of investments will be diversified across a number of dimensions, including geography, tenancy, lease duration, financing terms, and credit types. This makes our REIT a potentially better option than other REITs with less diversification.

Long-Term Leases: While our REIT portfolio will include some properties with either short or medium-term leases, our leases will generally have terms of 10 or more years. The greater lease term supports longer, sustainable cash flows.

Rigorous Tenant Qualification: We will only lease properties to investment grade and other creditworthy tenants. By confirming the financial strength of our tenants, we create a more secure investment opportunity for our investors.

Opportunity for National Level Property Investment: While many REITs focus their property portfolios in a particular industry or geographical area, our portfolio of properties will extend across multiple industry sectors and geographies. We will therefore be more resistant to economic downturns in any one sector or location.

Diversification of Risk: Real estate investments can provide an additional degree of diversification to an already diversified portfolio. Those who limit their investments to stocks, bonds, and cash may be missing out on an important opportunity for additional asset diversification. Historically, changes in real estate values have not been directly correlated with fluctuations in asset classes such as stocks, bonds or currency markets.