That I understand but as I was sharing, there are many other counters that have better capital gains and dividend yield (though to be fair, different focus). The matter of fact is when you have only a dollar, where should you put this dollar?
When you put in a counter that performs worse off than other counters, then technically speaking you are incurring opportunity costs (due to conviction or whatever the reason is).
For example, I am having better returns (both yield and gain) on Sasseur Reit (22% excluding divs), lendlease (20% excluding divs), starhill (16% excluding divs), ARA logos (18% excluding divs). There are also counter that I entered way late into the game and they are already better performing compared to A-REIT and that is what I am grumbling over in terms of A-REIT being underperforming. It occupies about 15% of the total REITS portfolio and I think I have given it enough time to shine.
As I have held A-REIT for more than 6 months now, I can confirm that it has touched 3.15 or 3.16 before in the past 6 months but it is very pathetic as compared to the other counters. Industrial REITS at the moment I doubt it can touch its previous July - September 2020 high anytime soon (e.g. Ascendas, Mapletree industrial etc.)