Are REITs income stocks, only? Following Myers (1977) and Bernardo et al. (2007), we examine empirically REITs' unlevered betas, betas of growth options, betas of assets-in-lace and the difference between the latter two in detail for 1983-2012, and also for three sequential, distinct, than those...

This paper adopts the methodology in Bali and Cakici (2008) in tracking the evolution of the relation between equity REITs' idiosyncratic risk and their cross-sectional expected returns between 1981 and 2010. In addition to the full sample period, we study this relation for (i) all sample REITs,...