Topic: How To Invest

Thank you, Pat and your team, for your advice over the years. What is your view of Northern Property REIT?

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Northern Property REIT, $29.10, symbol NPR.UN on Toronto (Units outstanding: 31.9 million; Market cap: $928.3 million; www.npreit.com), is a real estate investment trust that focuses on managing multi-family residential properties, such as apartments and townhomes, in Canada’s north. The REIT gets 25% of its revenue from Nunavut and 25% from the Northwest Territories. Alberta is next, at 20%, followed by B.C. (16%) and Newfoundland (12%). Northern’s housing portfolio is divided into three segments: multi-family residential (including apartments, townhomes and single-family rental units), at 74% of revenue; “execu-suites” (furnished apartments for short-term lease), 9%; and commercial real estate, 17%. The REIT is the largest residential landlord in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Newfoundland and Labrador, where many of its apartments are leased to governments and corporations. It’s also a significant residential landlord in northern Alberta and B.C. In three months ended September 30, 2013, the REIT’s revenue rose 12.0%, to $45.6 million from $40.7 million a year earlier. Cash flow per…