Industry data and research highlights the investment performance benefits and opportunities of REIT-based real estate investments to institutional and individual investors, financial advisers, policymakers and the media. Nareit provides a range of stock performance data for both domestic and global REITs as well as a series of industry performance measures tracked daily, monthly and yearly.
What are Workers Telling Us About the Outlook for Real Estate?
The JOLTS report on labor market turnover can help shed light on the outlook for the economy and for real estate.
Sept. 10, 2019
REIT Interest Exposures are Down—Especially in the Tails
REITs have strengthened their balance sheets over the past decade, with average leverage and interest expense to NOI falling to historical lows. Averages, however, don’t reveal what is going on in the tails and if there are hidden pockets of risks.
Sept. 9, 2019
REITs Ramp Up Equity Issuance as Outlook Brightens
REITs issued $19.2 billion in secondary offerings of common equity during the first half of 2019, which is more than they raised during the entire year of 2018.
REITWatch is a monthly statistical publication intended to provide a snapshot of the REIT industry. It includes data derived from the FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Index Series and the FTSE/EPRA Nareit Global Real Estate Index Series in addition to tracking the performance of individual REITs.
The next year is likely to be a good but not great one for real estate, with solid job growth, consumer spending and business activity driving demand for nearly all types of commercial real estate. There are several potential clouds on the horizon, though, that could darken the outlook.
Nareit commissioned EY to estimate the current economic contribution of all U.S. REITs (including public listed, public non-listed, and private REITs) in the United States. Today, REITs in the United States own approximately $3 trillion of gross real estate assets and public listed equity REIT portfolios included more than 500,000 properties at year-end 2017. The total economic contribution of U.S. REITs in 2017, the most recent year of complete information, was an estimated 2.3 million full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs and $140.4 billion of labor income.
CEM Benchmarking's 2018 Study sponsored by Nareit, provides a comprehensive look at realized investment performance across asset classes over a 19-year period using a proprietary dataset covering more than 200 public and private sector pensions with nearly $3.5 trillion in combined assets under management.Listed equity REITs had the second highest average annual net return over the period, averaging 11.04 percent. Private equity had the highest average annual net return, of 11.64 percent.
REITWatch is a monthly statistical publication intended to provide a snapshot of the REIT industry. It includes data derived from the FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Index Series and the FTSE/EPRA Nareit Global Real Estate Index Series in addition to tracking the performance of individual REITs.
Market Commentary
What are Workers Telling Us About the Outlook for Real Estate?
The JOLTS report on labor market turnover can help shed light on the outlook for the economy and for real estate.
REIT Interest Exposures are Down—Especially in the Tails
REITs have strengthened their balance sheets over the past decade, with average leverage and interest expense to NOI falling to historical lows. Averages, however, don’t reveal what is going on in the tails and if there are hidden pockets of risks.
REITs Ramp Up Equity Issuance as Outlook Brightens
REITs issued $19.2 billion in secondary offerings of common equity during the first half of 2019, which is more than they raised during the entire year of 2018.