These Apartment REITs Yield 4.3% and Have Long Track Records of Dividend Growth

For Millennials and Gen Z facing challenges in attaining homeownership and favoring renting over buying, apartment real estate investment trusts (REITs) emerge as a strategic investment route. Here are two REITs that these generations can use to navigate the evolving real estate market through this alternative avenue.

UDR

UDR UDR, also known as United Dominion Realty Trust, owns or has ownership interests in approximately 60,000 high-quality apartment homes across some of the most desirable markets in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Sunbelt, and West Coast regions, including Boston, Dallas, Denver, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

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UDR currently pays a quarterly dividend of $0.425 per share, equating to an annualized dividend of $1.70, which gives its stock a yield of about 4.3% at the time of this writing.

In addition to sporting a high yield, UDR is a dividend-growth superstar. It has raised its annual dividend payment for 14 consecutive years, and its 1.2% hike in February has it on track for 2024 to mark the 15th consecutive year with an increase.

Mid-America Apartment Communities

Mid-America Apartment Communities MAA owns or has ownership interests in about 102,000 apartment homes across the high-growth Sunbelt region of the United States, including Atlanta, Dallas, Tampa, Orlando, Charlotte, Austin, Nashville, and Houston.

MAA currently pays a quarterly dividend of $1.47 per share, equating to an annualized dividend of $5.88 per share, which gives its stock a yield of about 4.3% at the time of this writing.

Like UDR, MAA is a dividend-growth superstar. It has raised its annual dividend for 13 consecutive years, and its recent hike has it on pace for 2024 to mark the 14th consecutive year with an increase.

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