Wpływ kryzysu finansowego na działalność funduszy nieruchomości typu REIT w USA

Financial crisis on global markets, initiated in the USA, is regarded as one of the most characteristic phenomena in the contemporary global economy. Effects of the crisis visible in activity of Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) evaluations of the changeability of the REITs market constitute a point of departure in comparing to the share market real estate market. In the study the author is making the assessment of the impact of the financial crisis to the REITs market in the USA, as the instrument combining features of both the capital market and the real estate market. Values of basic share indices of the American capital market, the real estate market and indices market of REITs funds in years 2007- 2012 were compared. Analysis results will show that REITs in conditions of an economic crisis can be destabilizing instrument and being characterized by a highest risk. Determining investment attraction of the REITs funds constitutes the summary of results achieved in the recessionary period.