riocan

Toronto symbol REI.UN, is Canada’s largest REIT. It specializes in large, Big Box-style retail shopping centres.

TORSTAR CORP. $7.15 (Toronto symbol TS.B; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 79.7 million; Market cap: $569.9 million; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.4; Dividend yield: 7.3%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.torstar.com) owns romance novel publisher Harlequin, which recently formed a joint venture with Cosmopolitan magazine that will publish two e-books a month, starting in August 2013.

The new series, called Cosmo Red Hot Reads, will help Harlequin profit from fast-growing demand for erotica, such as the best-selling Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy....
ISHARES CDN REIT SECTOR INDEX FUND $17.10 (Toronto symbol XRE; buy or sell through brokers; ca.ishares.com) holds the 15 Canadian real estate investment trusts (REITs) in the S&P/TSX Capped REIT Index. The weight of each REIT is limited to 25% of the ETF’s value.

iShares CDN REIT’s expenses are 0.60% of its assets....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $27 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 300.1 million; Market cap: $8.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.8; Dividend yield: 5.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) is Canada largest real estate investment trust (REIT), with 294 retail properties, including 11 under development. It also owns 52 malls in the U.S.

RioCan continues to expand beyond suburban big-box-style malls. It recently formed a joint venture with Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (Toronto symbol AP.UN) to redevelop certain properties in Toronto as mixed-use office, retail and residential complexes.

The REIT has also agreed to pay $362 million for an enclosed shopping centre and 50% of another mall, both in southern Ontario. Enclosed malls now supply 16.1% of its Canadian rental revenue.
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Canada’s biggest REIT expects to profit from Target’s Canadian launch
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST (Toronto symbol REI.UN; www.riocan.com) is Canada largest real estate investment trust (REIT), with 294 retail properties, including 11 under development. It also owns 52 malls in the U.S. RioCan continues to expand beyond suburban big-box-style malls. It recently formed a joint venture with Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (Toronto symbol AP.UN) to redevelop certain properties in Toronto as mixed-use office, retail and residential complexes....
RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $27 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 300.1 million; Market cap: $8.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 4.8; Dividend yield: 5.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) is Canada largest real estate investment trust (REIT), with 294 retail properties, including 11 under development....
PRIMARIS RETAIL REIT $27.22 (Toronto symbol PMZ.UN; Units outstanding: 98.2 million; Market cap: $2.7 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.7%; www.primarisreit.com) has now agreed to a joint takeover bid from rivals H&R REIT $23.02 (Toronto symbol HR.UN; Units outstanding: 194.7 million; Market cap: $4.5 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 5.9%; www.hr-reit.com) and a consortium led by Canadian private equity firm Kingsett Capital.

Under the offer, Primaris unitholders can choose to receive 1.166 units of H&R or $28.00 cash per unit, subject to a maximum cash amount of $1.28 billion.

The transaction will see H&R end up with 17 of Primaris’s shopping centres plus nine more that Primaris plans to buy before the deal closes....
PRIMARIS RETAIL REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $27.02 (Toronto symbol PMZ.UN; Units outstanding: 97.8 million; Market cap: $2.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.7%; www.primarisreit.com) has received a friendly $28-a-share takeover bid.

The offer is from H&R REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $23.73 (Toronto symbol HR.UN; Units outstanding: 194.2 million; Market cap: $4.6 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 5.7%; www.hr-reit.com).

The H&R bids tops the $26-a-share in-cash hostile takeover bid from a consortium led by Canadian private equity firm Kingsett Capital. This group includes RioCan REIT $26.67.

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ALLIED PROPERTIES REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $34.39 (Toronto symbol AP.UN; Units outstanding: 64.0 million; Market cap: $2.2 billion; TSINetwork Rating: Extra Risk; Dividend yield: 4.0%; www.alliedpropertiesreit.com) owns 126 office buildings, mostly in major Canadian cities. These mainly Class I properties contain over 9.1 million square feet of leasable area.

Class I refers to 19th- and early-20th-century light industrial buildings that have been converted to office and retail space. They usually feature exposed beams, interior brick and hardwood floors.

The trust bought $456 million worth of properties in 2011. In the first three quarters of 2012, it added a further $300 million of acquisitions. Allied has a 92.1% occupancy rate.

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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $27 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 299.0 million; Market cap: $8.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 5.3; Dividend yield: 5.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) has agreed to buy a mall in Oakville, Ontario, plus 50% of another mall in Burlington, Ontario. Right now, Primaris Retail Real Estate Investment Trust (Toronto symbol PMZ.UN) owns these malls. RioCan will buy them from a consortium that has launched a friendly takeover for Primaris. The $362-million price is equal to 4% of RioCan’s market cap.

The new malls will give RioCan more flexibility to attract tenants with leases that include space in its other Toronto-area malls.

RioCan is a buy.

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RIOCAN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST $27 (Toronto symbol REI.UN; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Units outstanding: 299.0 million; Market cap: $8.1 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 5.3; Dividend yield: 5.2%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.riocan.com) has agreed to buy a mall in Oakville, Ontario, plus 50% of another mall in Burlington, Ontario....