Housing Costs Keep Buyers Renting, and $90,000 Across These 3 Housing REITs Pays $3,522 a Year

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With mortgage rates stuck above 7% and home sales at a one-year low, millions of would-be buyers keep writing rent checks. Three landlords are collecting them, and one rents houses to the very families priced out of buying.

A 30-year fixed mortgage averaged 7.11% on November 12, 2026. That's a little below the 7.4% high from October 15, 2026. Prices haven't come down much either. The Case-Shiller national home price index was 336.7 in August 2026, close to its July peak. Existing home sales also slowed to 3.75 million annualized in October, the weakest reading in the past year. With buying this expensive, many households keep renting, and someone collects that rent.

Some of those landlords are real estate investment trusts, or REITs. REITs own property and skip corporate income tax, but in return they must pay out at least 90% of their taxable income to shareholders. This is why REITs usually pay bigger dividends than most stocks. Here, $90,000 is split equally across three housing REITs ($30,000 each), and together they would pay about $3,522 a year.

Each income figure annualizes the most recent quarterly dividend declared by the company and uses the Nov. 13, 2026 share price. The income changes whenever prices or dividends change. The stocks are listed from lowest yield to highest.

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Equity LifeStyle owns manufactured home communities, RV resorts, campgrounds, and marinas, with 453 properties as of Sept. 30, 2026. Residents typically own their homes and rent the land underneath them. Moving a manufactured home costs a lot, so tenants tend to stay for years. Core monthly base rent averaged $963 in the third quarter, up from $912 a year earlier. Core operating expenses rose just 1.3% over the same period.

The quarterly dividend rose to $0.5425 in 2026, up from $0.515.

Sun Communities owns 295 manufactured housing and 157…

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