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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (110137)	3/14/2008 6:35:48 PM
From: Perspective	Respond to of 306849

<Deteriorating cash flow is probably crucial > Seems like by the time you have confirmation of that, it's probably too late to short 'em, no? `BC

To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (110137)	3/16/2008 3:52:54 AM
From: Asymmetric	Respond to of 306849

Patron - it not only helps to know how much total debt a particular REIT is carrying, but how much of that debt matures this year and needs to be rolled over. The highest debt ratio for any major U.S. retail REIT belongs to General Growth Properties (62.7 percent), according to Deutsche Bank Securities. Further, only two REITs have more than $1 billion in debt maturing in 2008, General Growth Properties at $2.8 billion and Simon Property Group at $1.5 billion. Hope that helps. - A.