Treasury ponders debt REITs

摘要

The government is considering a radical introduction of REITs for property debt providers and housing associations as a way of helping two hugely underfunded markets.Policy analysts at the Treasury are examining proposals put forward by the property industry for mortgage REITs and social housing REITs."Government is looking at these," Phil Nicklin, a lead adviser to the government on REITs since they were introduced in 2007, confirmed to Property Week."If these came in, they could really change the landscape."He said that if government wanted to go ahead, the earliest they could be introduced was July 2013.