Brad Thomas

Brad Thomas has over 30 years of real estate investing experience. He’s published over 4,000 articles during the last 13 years, and he is the top writer on Seeking Alpha, the world’s largest investing community. He is also the CEO of Wide Moat Research, senior analyst at iREIT®, and a REIT ETF provider (iREIT® MarketVector Quality REIT Index). Brad teaches REITs at New York University and other schools such as Penn State University, Clemson University, the University of North Carolina, Cornell University, and Georgetown University.

Articles & Books From Brad Thomas

REITs For Dummies
Get the 411 on real estate investment trusts (REITs) and how they might fit into your portfolio Are you looking for exciting—but responsible—new investment opportunities that go beyond simple stocks and bonds? In REITs For Dummies, celebrated investing lecturer and author Brad Thomas delivers an easy-to-understand guide to getting started with real estate investment trusts—also known as “REITs.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 09-07-2023
A real estate investment trust (REIT) is a company that owns, manages, and/or finances real estate holdings. These holdings can be in the form of apartment buildings, hotels, shopping centers, self-storage facilities, warehouses, and even billboards, data centers, cell towers, woodlands, and many others.REITs have stock attributes (liquidity and transparency) and, at the same time, enable you to enjoy the benefits of owning income-producing real estate.