This tale can be helpful to remember, that as REIT yields go way up, and up… so does the risk. Here are 5 examples, yielding over 9%, that I believe you should avoid. New Senior Investment Group (SNR) is the highest-paying health care REIT (for now), with a dividend of 13.61%. The company reported a first quarter net loss of $13.3 million with total net operating income (NOI) of $47.1 million. Whitestone REIT (WSR) pays a monthly dividend yielding 9.54% (annually), and hasn’t increased the dividend since going public in 2010.

Source: Forbes May 24, 2018 12:22 UTC