Dream bolsters your 2023 income

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DREAM OFFICE REIT $7.27 is a buy. The REIT (Toronto symbol D.UN; Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio; Manufacturing sector; Units outstanding: 50.3 million; Market cap: $365.7 million; Dividend yield: 13.8%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Average; www.dream.ca) owns 27 office properties, including two under development. The downtown Toronto market supplies 79% of its rental revenue and accounts for 82% of the portfolio’s value. Dream Office currently pays a monthly distribution of $0.0833 a unit. The annual rate of $1.00 yields a high 13.8%. The REIT’s payout ratio in the 12 months ended June 30, 2023, was 71.4%. In June 2023, Dream also paid unitholders a special capital gain distribution (in the form of additional units) worth $4.55 a unit. Immediately after that payment, it consolidated its outstanding units so that the number of units each investor holds remains the same as before the payment. The special distribution, however, increased the adjusted cost base of your units. That reduces your capital gains tax when your units are sold. Dream Office REIT…