{"id":9077,"date":"2026-03-27T19:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sareit.co.za\/?p=9077"},"modified":"2026-03-27T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:25:09","slug":"the-reit-report-episode-2-how-reits-generate-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/the-reit-report-episode-2-how-reits-generate-income\/","title":{"rendered":"The REIT Report episode 2: How REITs generate Income"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The REIT Report episode 2: How REITs generate Income &#8211; Inside the engine room<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Episode 2 of The REIT Report on Classic Business (Fine Music Radio), Christiaan Barnard, CFO of Spear REIT and 2025 Young CFO of the Year at the CFA South Africa Awards, joins hosts Michael Avery and Alistair Anderson of Property Flash to explain the income engine that drives South African real estate investment trusts.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion explores how REITs generate and protect rental income, why escalations run above headline inflation, how vacancy is managed strategically and why hedging between 65% and 75% of debt gives investors the forward visibility they need. Barnard also shares how solar energy has become a meaningful additional revenue stream for Spear REIT, now contributing 4% of annualised revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The REIT Report is a six-part series produced in partnership with the SA REIT Association and Property Flash.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Episode 2:\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/iono.fm\/e\/1660064\" href=\"https:\/\/iono.fm\/e\/1660064\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"6\">https:\/\/iono.fm\/e\/1660064<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The REIT Report episode 2: How REITs generate Income &#8211; Inside the engine room In Episode 2 of The REIT Report on Classic Business (Fine Music Radio), Christiaan Barnard, CFO of Spear REIT and 2025 Young CFO of the Year at the CFA South Africa Awards, joins hosts Michael Avery and Alistair Anderson of Property [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[282,285,283,284,48],"class_list":["post-9077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-members-news","tag-classic-radio-fmr","tag-income-generation","tag-property-flash","tag-sa-reit-association-podcast-series","tag-spear-reit"],"featured_image_src":{"landsacpe":["https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Christiaan.Barnard.CFO_.Spear_.REIT-web-scaled-1-1140x445.jpg",1140,445,true],"list":["https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Christiaan.Barnard.CFO_.Spear_.REIT-web-scaled-1-463x348.jpg",463,348,true],"medium":["https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Christiaan.Barnard.CFO_.Spear_.REIT-web-scaled-1-300x224.jpg",300,224,true],"full":["https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Christiaan.Barnard.CFO_.Spear_.REIT-web-scaled-1.jpg",2560,1908,false]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/muddev.co.za\/sareit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}