The shares in an equity REIT are selling for a discount of $18\%.$ If an investor invests directly in the underlying assets, he would earn $16\mathrm{.}06\%.$ By investing the same funds in the REIT and ignoring taxes, fees, commissions, etc., what is the investor's return?

Round the answer to two decimals in percentage form.

Please write $\%$ sign in the units box.

Answer: $19\mathrm{.}59\%$