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.
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Nareit’s 2026 outlook addresses the topics that have been on the minds of real estate investors, including valuation divergences, compelling opportunities, and global strategies.
REITwise will take place March 24-26 in Hollywood, FL. This event is the leading educational conference for REITs, covering technical, regulatory, and operational updates.
For 65 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.
Data centers house the servers and network equipment that make modern communications possible, including the Internet and data transmitted by cell phones.
An investment performance comparison between listed equity REITs and the rest of the U.S. stock market—segmented by sector or by style—highlights the long-term diversification benefits of the listed equity REIT market.
Whether what you’re looking to purchase is simply the steady income typical of REITs and Treasuries or the broader performance and diversification benefits of the real estate asset class, the “price” for purchasing those investment return attributes through listed equity REITs is especially favorable now.
The senior housing business is in the midst of a building boom the likes of which we have not seen for a couple of decades.
The correlation between REITs and the broad stock market has always been relatively low because REIT returns are driven by the real estate market cycle whereas returns for most other equities are driven by the much shorter business cycle.
Commercial property prices have risen steadily since the beginning of the recovery from the Great Financial Crisis. Continued price gains, however, at some point begin to raise warning flags.
Pricing in the private real estate market has become more inflated, relative to REIT valuations, than at any time since 2007.
The apartment market led the way among commercial property markets in the third quarter, as robust demand pushed down the national vacancy rate and supported rent growth.
The fundamentals for the REIT industry remain firm, which gives us some confidence that the recent decline in FFO is a short-term dip amidst a longer-term trend of mostly solid growth.
REITs have steadily fortified their balance sheets, leaving the industry in as solid a financial position it has ever seen, based on more than two decades of data available.
One of the enduring mysteries of reporting on investments is how many people seem to focus on price appreciation OR income, and how few people focus instead on total return
Cap rates have been holding their ground, even as interest rates move higher. The resilience of pricing in the real estate sector should not be surprising, however, given the strength in the fundamentals that support demand for commercial space.
The macroeconomy and real estate markets had a good performance in 2017. That may well continue into 2018, but there are several risks that might cause a change in the outlook.
Concern is growing among some investors that tight labor markets may trigger an increase in price inflation.
For REIT investors 2017 turned out to be a very normal year—but that was a huge disappointment given the “irrational exuberance” that investors in some other parts of the stock market enjoyed. So how can we develop empirically-based REIT return expectations for 2018?
REIT share prices have often responded negatively to rising interest rates, at least since 2013. Is this warranted by the outlook for their future earnings?