S&P 500 Got You Feeling Down? Look Into These 3 Real Estate Investment Trusts

Real estate investing is considered a good way to diversify a portfolio because not only has real estate itself shown its resilience through all kinds of market conditions, but it gives you the feeling of actually owning something. It's real.

There are lots of ways to buy real estate in the stock market too, including in the form of the 225 or so publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs). About 145 million Americans own REIT shares, and REITs themselves own more than 503,000 real estate assets across the country, according to the Nareit trade group.

While both the S&P 500 itself and the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs index are down about 19% so far this year, you don't have to settle for that. Some REITs are outperforming the greater market right now: LTC Properties (NYSE: LTC), Sabra Healthcare REIT (NASDAQ: SBRA), and W.P. Carey (NYSE: WPC).

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