The Market Commentary blog on reit.com presents analysis of the macro- and micro-economic fundamentals impacting the REIT and commercial real estate industry. The Nareit economics team offers their commentary on the state of the market, the outlook for commercial real estate and breaking macroeconomic news. The opinions set forth here are solely those of its author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Nareit or its membership.
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REITs Report Solid Earnings Growth Through Q3 2018
Funds from operations of all listed equity REITs was 11.1 percent higher than one year earlier, according to the Nareit T-Tracker®.
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Strong Commercial Real Estate Fundamentals Continue into Q3
Economic momentum continued into the third quarter causing commercial real estate markets to tighten.
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Amazon’s New Headquarters, and REITs
REITs have a strong presence in the office, apartment and hotel markets in both surrounding areas of Amazon’s new headquarters and will be important players in the next phase of development of these cities.
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Sears Bankruptcy and REITs: End of an Era, but There’s a New Chapter Ahead
When discussing the outlook for retail, it’s important to keep in mind the distinction between the impact on retail stores and what it means for the owners of retail properties, including REITs.
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REITs Hit the ATM in the Second Quarter
REITs have relied increasingly on a low-cost, flexible way of raising equity capital as they have expanded their issuance through At-the-market (ATM) programs.
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Tracking Property Prices and REIT Total Return Beyond the Core Sectors
New indices introduced by Green Street allow us for the first time to compare property price performance to total returns for property types outside of the traditional core REIT sectors.
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Rising Homeownership, Apartment Demand, Single Family Home Rentals and REITs
The recovery in housing markets has generated concerns among investors in apartment properties that a rebound in homeownership could undermine the demand for apartments. Nothing could be further from the truth!
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Looking Between the Sectors: REIT Price Multiple Performance
A comparison of recent trends of the P/E ratio for the S&P 500 to the price-to-FFO ratio for REITs shows a contrasting risk/reward tradeoff between the broad equity market and REITs.
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IRR is an Easily Manipulated “Performance” Metric
Most private equity investment managers measure their performance using IRR, and illustrates how SLOCs and forward commitments can be used to manipulate IRR computations to make performance appear better than it really is.
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Expansion and Growth of REIT Earnings
Net operating income (NOI) of listed REITs rose nearly 50 percent over the past four years. The steady increases in same-store NOI at a pace above the inflation rate should continue to drive earnings, and valuations, upward in the future.
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FFO of listed REITs rose 5.5 percent, to $16.4 billion, in Q2
There are a multitude of signs that REIT performance will likely remain strong in the months ahead.
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Low Cap Rates Are Flashing a Signal, but is it Yellow, Red… or Green?
Are low cap rates flashing a signal that speculative pricing is setting the market up for a correction?