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Tax Loss harvesting is the practice of selling a stock or mutual fund that trades below your buy price, so that you can convert the notional losses you see on paper into real losses. While this may sound like a strange thing to do, smart investors do it to save on tax outgo. 

Real Estate Investment Trusts, also known as REITs, are attracting quite a bit of attention lately from Indian investors, who have a known fetish for real estate. Can REITs deliver land-like capital gains, while saving us of the concentration risks and the high maintenance required in property investments? Can they substitute for equities or mutual funds in one’s portfolio, in terms of wealth creation?