REITs invest in the majority of real estate property types, including offices, apartment buildings, warehouses, retail centers, medical facilities, data centers, cell towers and hotels.
Nareit’s REIT Directory provides a comprehensive list of REIT and publicly traded real estate companies that are members of Nareit. The directory can be sorted and filtered by sector, listing status, and stock performance.
CEM Benchmarking’s 2024 study also reveals allocations, returns, volatility, and risk-adjusted performance of 12 asset classes over 25-year period.
Experts are forecasting a reinvigoration of the office market due to a boost in leasing from AI-related companies.
Nareit's John Worth along with Brandon Benjamin of Brookfield Asset Management will discuss the performance for the second quarter of 2025 and upcoming trends.
For 60 years, Nareit has led the U.S. REIT industry by ensuring its members’ best interests are promoted by providing unparalleled advocacy, investor outreach, continuing education and networking.
Modern portfolio theory argues that well-diversified investment portfolios should include allocations to all assets in the market basket, including real estate, which is the third largest asset in the U.S. investment market basket after equities and bonds.
Nareit’s Investment Affairs & Investor Education Outreach Program has been developed to inform institutional investors, individual investors and financial advisors worldwide about the many positive investment performance attributes of REIT-based real estate investment, thereby empowering all cohorts of investors to make more informed decisions about the appropriate allocation of assets invested in REITs.
Individuals can invest in REITs in a variety of different ways, including purchasing shares of REIT stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. REITs also play a growing role in defined benefit and defined contribution investment plans.
Nareit corporate members receive exclusive benefits, including access to advocacy, investors, regulatory engagement, thought leadership, industry-leading research, professional development, member-only events, and more.
Advanced portfolio modelling technique using 40 years of investment return data increased allocations to REITs, high-yield bonds and preferred stocks in optimized portfolios.
REITs work to attract larger allocations from retail investors.
Institutional investors reevaluating role of REITs in retirement portfolios.
Coverman says alternative investments, such as non-listed REITs, can reduce portfolio volatility and offer a hedge against inflation.
The study provides a comprehensive review of investment allocations and actual investment performance across 12 asset groups. The analysis looks at fund performance over 17 years, the longest period for which CEM had data for some of the assets studied, and it utilizes a proprietary dataset covering more than 200 public and private sector pension plans with over $3 trillion in combined assets under management.
The recently updated study provides a comprehensive review of investment allocations and actual investment performance across 12 asset groups over an 18-year period.
Sheridan Titman and Garry Twite collaborate in the finance department of the University of Texas at Austin.
Nareit’s REITwise 2024: Law, Accounting & Finance Conference convened almost 1,100 real estate executives and REIT industry professionals this week.