Company: RNP
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049819
Chunk: 79

Company: COHEN & STEERS REIT & PREFERRED & INCOME FUND INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
Chunk 79
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 in interest rates, prepayment and defaults by borrowers, self-liquidation, adverse economic conditions, adverse changes in tax laws, and the possibility of failing to maintain an exemption under the 1940 Act. Any rental income or income from the disposition of real estate could adversely affect a REIT Subsidiary’s ability to retain its tax status, which would have adverse tax consequences. Each REIT Subsidiary is subject to the risk that it will need to liquidate a holding at an economically inopportune time.

By investing through a REIT Subsidiary, the Fund bears the fees and expenses of the REIT Subsidiary (including, among other things operating costs, transaction expenses, administrative and custody fees, legal expenses and custody expenses). Thus, investing through a REIT Subsidiary may cause the Fund to be subject to higher operating expenses than if it invested directly.

To the extent a REIT Subsidiary holds mortgages, it will be subject to the following risks: (1) during periods of declining interest rates, mortgagors may be inclined to prepay their mortgages, which prepayment may diminish the yield on securities issued by the REIT Subsidiary; and (2) when interest rates rise, the value of the REIT Subsidiary’s investment in fixed rate obligations can be expected to decline.

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A REIT Subsidiary may have limited diversification because it may invest in a limited number of properties, a narrow geographic area, or a single type of property. The private real estate investments owned by a REIT Subsidiary will not be traded on a national securities exchange and an investment therein is, therefore, illiquid. These investments are also more difficult to value than publicly traded real estate investments.

A REIT Subsidiary, and therefore the Fund, will be affected by changes in the value of the underlying real property, fluctuations in the demand for real estate, defaults by tenants, and decreases in market rates for rent. To the extent it invests in mortgages or otherwise derives income from the collection of interest payments, a REIT Subsidiary may be affected by the quality of credit extended, prepayments and defaults by borrowers, and changes in market interest rates, and may be more susceptible to interest rate risk.

Each REIT Subsidiary likely will depend on its ability to generate