Industry News Residential REITs: Construction Slowdown Points to Near-Term Rent Rebound Residential REITs own and manage various forms of residences and rent space in those properties to tenants. 06/09/2025 Image
Blog Real Estate and REIT Allocations in Generalist Funds Trending Higher Actively managed generalist funds tend to be underweight in real estate and REITs. 06/06/2025 Image
Blog Traded REITs Top 1,000 Worldwide Nareit’s annual update of the Global REIT Approach to Real Estate Investing study shows growth in REITs worldwide, with more than 1,000 traded REITs at the end of 2024 in 42 countries and regions. 06/02/2025 Image
Blog Defined Benefit Pension Funds Increasing REIT Usage in Real Estate Strategies Nareit analysis of data from Preqin, a financial research firm that tracks investments in alternative assets, indicates that the use of REITs by pension plans has increased in the last six years. 05/27/2025 Image
Blog Telecommunications, Office, Self-Storage Advance in Q1 Actively Managed Real Estate Fund Tracker Nareit tracks quarterly investment holdings for the largest actively managed real estate investment funds focusing on REIT investment for insights into expert investor sentiment. 05/19/2025 Image
Blog REITs Play Integral Role in Target-Date Funds at Every Stage of Retirement Savings The growing use of target-date funds (TDFs) remains the dominant investment-related trend in the defined contribution and individual retirement account markets, and REITs continued to be a critical component of TDFs in 2024. 03/18/2025 Image
Blog Digital, Health Care Led in Q4 2024 Actively Managed Real Estate Fund Tracker Nareit tracks quarterly investment holdings for the largest actively managed real estate investment funds focusing on REIT investment for insights into expert investor sentiment. 03/11/2025 Image
Blog REITs: An Accessible Way to Invest in Commercial Real Estate for a Broad Range of U.S. Families There is a high barrier to entry to invest directly in commercial property and most U.S. families do not invest in commercial property unless they have significant financial resources, according to data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). 02/12/2025 Image
Blog REIT Sharpe Ratios Closely Follow Sector Performance Trends Investors use Sharpe ratios as a simple measure of risk adjusted return or, put differently, return per unit of risk. 02/11/2025 Image
Industry News mREITs Offer Consistently High Dividend Yields Throughout Market Cycles Mortgage REITs (mREITs) provide financing for income-producing real estate by purchasing or originating mortgages and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and earning income from the interest on these investments. 02/05/2025 Image
Blog REITs Earn Top GRESB Scores, Led by Office Sector GRESB, the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, has released its 2024 data on environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and good governance for real estate. 01/14/2025 Image
Blog Actively Managed Real Estate Fund Tracker: 2024Q3 Nareit tracks quarterly investment holdings for the 26 largest actively managed real estate investment funds focusing on REIT investment for insights into expert investor sentiment. 11/17/2024 Image