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.
The occupancy rate at apartment REITs has continued to move to new record highs during this building boom.
July 9, 2019
Total Size of U.S. Commercial Real Estate Estimated Between $14 and $17 Trillion
Nareit completed its third annual round in estimating the size of U.S. commercial real estate, and find that the total dollar value in 2018 was $16.0 trillion, with lower and upper bounds of this estimate of $14.4 to $17.0 trillion.
June 28, 2019
REITs are an Investment Grade Sector
REITs have made important changes over the past decade in their overall leverage ratios, as well as the composition and structure of their debt.
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
Supply-Demand Fundamentals Favor Apartment REITs
The occupancy rate at apartment REITs has continued to move to new record highs during this building boom.
Total Size of U.S. Commercial Real Estate Estimated Between $14 and $17 Trillion
Nareit completed its third annual round in estimating the size of U.S. commercial real estate, and find that the total dollar value in 2018 was $16.0 trillion, with lower and upper bounds of this estimate of $14.4 to $17.0 trillion.
REITs are an Investment Grade Sector
REITs have made important changes over the past decade in their overall leverage ratios, as well as the composition and structure of their debt.