Small and medium REITs use a scheme structure for property investment under the SEBI framework introduced in March 2024. Investment in a regulated scheme still involves property, cash-flow, market and liquidity risk.
Keep the regulatory conditions distinct
The verified distribution rule requires at least 95 percent of SPV net distributable cash flows to reach the scheme, and 100 percent of the scheme’s net distributable cash flows to reach unit holders. Declarations are at least quarterly. This does not promise a fixed monthly rent payment.
The separate asset rule requires at least 95 percent of scheme assets in completed and revenue-generating properties. Investment-manager holding requirements distinguish initially non-leveraged schemes at five percent and leveraged schemes at fifteen percent, with later stages and conditions. These are not a universal five-percent sponsor rule.
Illustrative rent and value model
The simulator assumes the chosen rental yield and annual capital appreciation stay constant. It adds assumed rental cash flow separately to the future property value. It excludes changes in occupancy, costs, taxes and actual market sale prices. Its input range is a software range, not a complete account of regulatory minimums or eligibility.
SM-REIT Wealth & Cash Flow Simulator
Explore assumed rent and capital growth before costs and tax.
Illustrative Combined Value
₹1,676,282
(Assumed future value + cumulative assumed rent; costs and tax excluded)
Read the scheme documents
Review the property, tenants, leases, borrowing, fees, distribution components and sale risks for the particular scheme. Professional management and a trustee do not guarantee returns or remove the risk of loss.
Tax scope
Tax on a distribution depends on its components and applicable conditions. Do not infer dividend exemption only from the sponsor’s tax choice. A complete current payout-tax explanation is held pending verification of the underlying-SPV and statutory conditions.
For qualifying listed business-trust units, up to twelve months is short-term and more than twelve months is long-term. The scoped sections for qualifying transfers from 23 July 2024 provide twenty-percent short-term tax or 12.5-percent long-term tax on covered aggregate gains above ₹1,25,000, subject to STT and other conditions. Cess and surcharge are additional. This model does not calculate tax.
Sources: SEBI REIT regulations consolidated in April 2026; Income Tax Department Act viewer, sections 2(42A), 111A and 112A.
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