Concentrate or diversify? The relationship between tenant concentration and REIT performance

Zheng, C. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3480-0167 and Zhu, B. (2021) Concentrate or diversify? The relationship between tenant concentration and REIT performance. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 57. pp. 899-927. ISSN 1573-7179 doi: 10.1007/s11156-021-00965-6

Abstract/Summary

This paper examines how a concentrated tenant base affects the operating performance and market valuations of US REITs. We observe that REITs adopting a concentrated tenant base present higher corporate cash flows and lower expenses. However, we identify a concentration discount effect that REITs with a more concentrated tenant base experience lower market valuations. We argue that this concentration discount is a result of the trade-offs between the impacts of the tenant base on the operating performance, risk levels and growth potentials. We find that a concentrated tenant base is associated with higher liquidity risk and lower dividend growth, resulting in an inflated discount factor. Our findings are not subject to sub-samples of focused or diversified REITs and stay robust after correcting for the selection bias as well as controlling for the lease structure, tenant quality and anchor tenant effect.

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Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Henley Business School > Real Estate and Planning
Publisher	Springer
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