UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM N-Q

 

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED
MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY

 

Investment Company Act file number

811-21241

 

 

RMR REAL ESTATE FUND

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

400 CENTRE STREET
NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS

 

02458

(Address of principal executive offices)

 

(Zip code)

 

Adam D. Portnoy, President
RMR Real Estate Fund
400 Centre Street
Newton, Massachusetts 02458

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

Copy to:

Brian D. O’Sullivan

State Street Bank and Trust Company

  2 Avenue De Lafayette, 6th Floor

Boston, Massachusetts 02111

Elizabeth Watson, Esq.

State Street Bank and Trust Company

 2 Avenue De Lafayette, 6th Floor

Boston, Massachusetts 02111

 

Registrant's telephone number, including area code:

(617) 332-9530

 

 

Date of fiscal year end:

December 31

 

 

 

 

Date of reporting period:

September 30, 2007

 

 



 

Item 1. Schedule of investments.

 

RMR Real Estate Fund

Portfolio of Investments – September 30, 2007 (unaudited)

 

Company

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Common Stocks – 99.3%

 

 

 

 

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts – 95.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Apartments – 8.9%

 

 

 

 

 

Archstone-Smith Trust

 

600

 

$

36,084

 

Associated Estates Realty Corp.

 

105,400

 

1,374,416

 

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

 

7,000

 

826,420

 

BRE Properties, Inc.

 

10,000

 

559,300

 

Equity Residential

 

49,000

 

2,075,640

 

Essex Property Trust, Inc.

 

2,000

 

235,140

 

Home Properties, Inc.

 

88,800

 

4,633,584

 

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

 

5,000

 

249,250

 

 

 

 

 

9,989,834

 

Diversified – 23.2%

 

 

 

 

 

CapLease, Inc.

 

56,000

 

574,000

 

Colonial Properties Trust

 

88,700

 

3,042,410

 

Cousins Properties, Inc.

 

10,100

 

296,536

 

Duke Realty Corp.

 

70,000

 

2,366,700

 

Franklin Street Properties Corp.

 

3,000

 

51,750

 

iStar Financial, Inc.

 

6,000

 

203,940

 

Lexington Corporate Properties Trust

 

383,800

 

7,679,838

 

Liberty Property Trust

 

29,000

 

1,166,090

 

Mission West Properties, Inc.

 

5,000

 

60,750

 

National Retail Properties, Inc.

 

352,700

 

8,598,826

 

Vornado Realty Trust

 

19,000

 

2,077,650

 

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust

 

300

 

9,954

 

 

 

 

 

26,128,444

 

Health Care – 17.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Cogdell Spencer, Inc.

 

16,500

 

305,250

 

HCP, Inc.

 

39,080

 

1,296,284

 

Health Care REIT, Inc.

 

162,600

 

7,193,424

 

Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

 

94,520

 

1,259,006

 

Nationwide Health Properties, Inc.

 

257,600

 

7,761,488

 

OMEGA Healthcare Investors, Inc.

 

96,000

 

1,490,880

 

Universal Health Realty Income Trust

 

13,000

 

461,890

 

 

 

 

 

19,768,222

 

Hospitality – 6.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.

 

185,500

 

1,864,275

 

Entertainment Properties Trust

 

22,000

 

1,117,600

 

Equity Inns, Inc.

 

11,000

 

248,380

 

FelCor Lodging Trust, Inc.

 

17,000

 

338,810

 

Hersha Hospitality Trust

 

129,300

 

1,280,070

 

LaSalle Hotel Properties

 

17,200

 

723,776

 

Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.

 

25,000

 

641,000

 

Supertel Hospitality, Inc.

 

161,000

 

1,213,940

 

 

 

 

 

7,427,851

 

Industrial – 9.9%

 

 

 

 

 

AMB Property Corp.

 

4,000

 

239,240

 

DCT Industrial Trust, Inc.

 

64,500

 

675,315

 

EastGroup Properties, Inc.

 

14,000

 

633,640

 

First Industrial Realty Trust, Inc.

 

211,240

 

8,210,899

 

ProLogis

 

21,000

 

1,393,350

 

 

 

 

 

11,152,444

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manufactured Homes – 2.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Sun Communities, Inc.

 

75,900

 

2,283,072

 

 

See notes to portfolio of investments.

 



 

Company

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Common Stocks – continued

 

 

 

 

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts – continued

 

 

 

 

 

Mortgage – 5.4%

 

 

 

 

 

Abingdon Investment, Ltd. (a)

 

550,000

 

$

4,856,500

 

Alesco Financial, Inc.

 

248,600

 

1,223,112

 

Anthracite Capital, Inc.

 

2,000

 

18,200

 

 

 

 

 

6,097,812

 

Office – 10.8%

 

 

 

 

 

American Financial Realty Trust

 

309,100

 

2,488,255

 

Brandywine Realty Trust

 

102,400

 

2,591,744

 

Corporate Office Properties Trust

 

15,500

 

645,265

 

Douglas Emmett, Inc.

 

12,500

 

309,125

 

Highwoods Properties, Inc.

 

55,000

 

2,016,850

 

Mack-Cali Realty Corp.

 

11,000

 

452,100

 

Maguire Properties, Inc.

 

48,000

 

1,239,840

 

Parkway Properties, Inc.

 

55,000

 

2,427,700

 

 

 

 

 

12,170,879

 

Retail – 7.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc.

 

75,000

 

1,021,500

 

Equity One, Inc.

 

10,000

 

272,000

 

Feldman Mall Properties, Inc.

 

3,000

 

22,680

 

Glimcher Realty Trust

 

109,400

 

2,570,900

 

Kimco Realty Corp.

 

5,000

 

226,050

 

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

 

12,000

 

467,280

 

Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust

 

3,000

 

93,720

 

Realty Income Corp.

 

54,600

 

1,526,070

 

Simon Property Group, Inc.

 

15,000

 

1,500,000

 

Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, Inc.

 

5,000

 

202,950

 

Urstadt Biddle Properties, Inc.

 

8,900

 

137,683

 

 

 

 

 

8,040,833

 

Specialty – 0.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Getty Realty Corp.

 

32,600

 

886,720

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Storage – 3.0%

 

 

 

 

 

Public Storage, Inc.

 

3,000

 

235,950

 

Sovran Self Storage, Inc.

 

50,000

 

2,292,000

 

U-Store-It Trust

 

65,000

 

858,000

 

 

 

 

 

3,385,950

 

Total Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $100,937,755)

 

 

 

107,332,061

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other – 3.9%

 

 

 

 

 

American Capital Strategies, Ltd.

 

23,500

 

1,004,155

 

Brookfield Properties Corp.

 

10,000

 

249,000

 

Iowa Telecommunication Services, Inc.

 

50,500

 

1,002,425

 

MCG Capital Corp.

 

41,000

 

589,990

 

Seaspan Corp.

 

48,200

 

1,585,780

 

Total Other (Cost $3,517,018)

 

 

 

4,431,350

 

Total Common Stocks (Cost $104,454,773)

 

 

 

111,763,411

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred Stocks – 35.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts – 29.5%

 

 

 

 

 

Apartments – 2.1%

 

 

 

 

 

Apartment Investment & Management Co., Series G

 

32,800

 

828,200

 

Apartment Investment & Management Co., Series T

 

60,000

 

1,485,000

 

 

 

 

 

2,313,200

 

Diversified – 1.3%

 

 

 

 

 

Colonial Properties Trust, Series D

 

60,000

 

1,523,400

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Health Care – 7.5%

 

 

 

 

 

Health Care REIT, Inc., Series G

 

20,000

 

630,000

 

LTC Properties, Inc., Series F

 

160,000

 

3,881,600

 

OMEGA Healthcare Investors Inc., Series D

 

160,000

 

3,961,600

 

 

 

 

 

8,473,200

 

 

See notes to portfolio of investments.

 



 

Company

 

Shares

 

Value

 

Preferred Stocks – continued

 

 

 

 

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts – continued

 

 

 

 

 

Hospitality – 13.5%

 

 

 

 

 

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Series A

 

107,900

 

$

2,549,137

 

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Series D

 

100,000

 

2,330,000

 

Eagle Hospitality Properties Trust, Inc., Series A

 

28,000

 

504,000

 

Entertainment Properties Trust, Series D

 

61,800

 

1,393,590

 

FelCor Lodging Trust, Inc., Series A (b)

 

83,000

 

1,947,180

 

FelCor Lodging Trust, Inc., Series C

 

49,200

 

1,168,500

 

Innkeepers USA Trust, Series C

 

120,000

 

1,920,000

 

Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc., Series A

 

10,000

 

241,000

 

Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc., Series B

 

64,500

 

1,545,420

 

Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc., Series A

 

68,800

 

1,627,120

 

 

 

 

 

15,225,947

 

Industrial – 0.4%

 

 

 

 

 

First Industrial Realty Trust, Series J

 

20,000

 

477,400

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office – 1.2%

 

 

 

 

 

Corporate Office Properties Trust, Series H

 

2,000

 

47,000

 

Corporate Office Properties Trust, Series J

 

22,000

 

532,400

 

Kilroy Realty Corp., Series E

 

500

 

12,348

 

Kilroy Realty Corp., Series F

 

30,000

 

715,800

 

 

 

 

 

1,307,548

 

Retail – 3.5%

 

 

 

 

 

Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc., Series A

 

88,600

 

2,238,036

 

Glimcher Realty Trust, Series F

 

20,000

 

485,400

 

Glimcher Realty Trust, Series G

 

50,000

 

1,176,000

 

 

 

 

 

3,899,436

 

Total Real Estate Investment Trusts (Cost $35,098,361)

 

 

 

33,220,131

 

Other – 5.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Hilltop Holdings, Inc., Series A

 

280,000

 

6,375,600

 

Total Other (Cost $6,016,675)

 

 

 

6,375,600

 

Total Preferred Stocks (Cost $41,115,036)

 

 

 

39,595,731

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Investment Companies – 5.6%

 

 

 

 

 

Alpine Total Dynamic Dividend Fund

 

96,200

 

1,890,330

 

Cohen & Steers Premium Income Realty Fund, Inc.

 

11,950

 

253,340

 

Cohen & Steers REIT and Preferred Income Fund, Inc.

 

28,426

 

712,924

 

Eaton Vance Enhanced Equity Income Fund II

 

19,800

 

379,368

 

LMP Real Estate Income Fund, Inc.

 

41,860

 

826,316

 

Neuberger Berman Real Estate Securities Income Fund, Inc.

 

50,950

 

785,140

 

Neuberger Berman Realty Income Fund, Inc.

 

42,400

 

883,192

 

The Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc.

 

118,800

 

578,556

 

Total Other Investment Companies (Cost $6,273,997)

 

 

 

6,309,166

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short-Term Investments – 3.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Other Investment Companies – 3.8%

 

 

 

 

 

Dreyfus Cash Management, Institutional Shares, 5.18% (c) (Cost $4,232,000)

 

4,232,000

 

4,232,000

 

Total Investments – 143.8% (Cost $156,075,806) (d)

 

 

 

161,900,308

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other assets less liabilities – 0.6%

 

 

 

628,324

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred Shares, at liquidation preference – (44.4)%

 

 

 

(50,000,000

)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net Assets applicable to common shareholders – 100%

 

 

 

$

112,528,632

 

 

See notes to portfolio of investments.

 



 


Notes to Portfolio of Investments

 

(a)

 

144A securities.  Securities restricted for resale to Qualified Institutional Buyers (4.3% of net assets).

(b)

 

Convertible into common stock.

(c)

 

Rate reflects 7 day yield as of September 30, 2007.

(d)

 

Although subject to adjustments to the extent 2007 distributions by the issuers of the Fund’s investments are characterized as return of capital, the cost, gross unrealized appreciation and gross unrealized depreciation of the Fund’s investments for federal income tax purposes, as of September 30, 2007, are as follows:

 

Cost

 

$

156,075,806

 

 

 

 

 

Gross unrealized appreciation

 

$

13,507,593

 

Gross unrealized depreciation

 

(7,683,091

)

Net unrealized appreciation

 

$

5,824,502

 

 

Reference should be made to the Fund’s financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2006, and six months ended June 30, 2007, for further information concerning the income tax characterization of the Fund’s investment income and distributions.

 



 

Item 2. Controls and Procedures.

 

(a)  The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”)), are effective, as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this report, based on their evaluation of these controls and procedures required by Rule 30a-3(b) under the 1940 Act and Rules 13a-15(b) or 15d-15(b) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

 

(b)  There were no changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the 1940 Act) that occurred during the registrant’s last fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

Item 3. Exhibits.

 

(a)(1) Certification of Principal Executive Officer, as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the 1940 Act.

(a)(2) Certification of Principal Financial Officer, as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the 1940 Act.

 



 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

RMR REAL ESTATE FUND

 

By:

/s/ Adam D. Portnoy

 

 

Adam D. Portnoy

 

President

 

 

Date:

November 9, 2007

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

 

By:

/s/ Adam D. Portnoy

 

 

Adam D. Portnoy

 

President

 

 

Date:

November 9, 2007

 

 

By:

/s/ Mark L. Kleifges

 

 

Mark L. Kleifges

 

Treasurer

 

 

Date:

November 9, 2007