Company: RNP
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form Type: N-CSR
Source: 0001193125-25-049819
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Company: COHEN & STEERS REIT & PREFERRED & INCOME FUND INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-07
Form: N-CSR
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 to invest directly or indirectly in certain real estate and real estate-related investments through one or more private, wholly owned REIT subsidiaries (each, a REIT Subsidiary). The Fund’s private real estate investments may consist of real estate joint ventures where the Fund (generally through a REIT Subsidiary) partners with a real estate operator. These investments may include retail, office, hotel, healthcare, multifamily residential, industrial and other properties. The investment manager believes that a REIT Subsidiary will allow it to access more attractive investment opportunities than would otherwise be the case.

Private real estate investments are generally less liquid than public real estate investments and may involve complex investment structures. In addition, private real estate investments may have higher capital requirements, and transactions involving this asset class may be more complex than those of public real estate investments. Making private real estate investments involves a high degree of sophistication, and returns are subject to the skill and decision-making process of the investment manager, as well as local, regional, and national market conditions. As is common in the real estate

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industry, many of the Fund’s investments in private real estate will be leveraged. For example, the Fund (through a REIT Subsidiary) expects to make investments in private real estate investments which obtain debt financing consisting of property level debt. Property level debt will be secured by the real estate owned through private real estate investment. Typically, these investments would solely own real estate assets and would borrow from a lender using the owned property as mortgage collateral. If one of the Fund’s investments were to default on a loan, the lender’s recourse would be to the mortgaged property and the lender would typically not have a claim to other assets of the Fund or its subsidiaries. Such property level debt is generally not recourse to the Fund and the Fund will not treat these non-recourseborrowings as senior securities (as defined in the 1940 Act) for purposes of complying with the 1940 Act’s limitations on leverage unless the financial statements of the entity holding such property-level debt are consolidated with the Fund’s financial statements. See “Recourse Financings Risk.” The Fund intends to manage its investments to avoid treating such non-recourseborrowings as senior securities, although there is no guarantee that the Fund will be successful in doing so, and failure to do so may impede the Fund’s ability to achieve