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 say it’s important for ETFs to embrace REITs, and vice versa.
REITworld will take place Dec. 8-11 in Dallas, TX. This event provides opportunities for individual meetings between REITs, investors, and analysts.
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Today’s property market is generally marked by supply-demand imbalances, yet not all segments of the commercial real estate market have exhibited the same levels of operational performance.
No Fed interest rate cuts? No problem: With their disciplined balance sheets, U.S. public equity REITs may not be immune from higher interest rates, but they are reasonably well-insulated from them.
Retailers have long been adept at catering to consumers’ desires to get more for less. In the mid-1960s, Kmart started its Blue Light Specials.
Discover how REITs are navigating interest rates, trade tariffs, and market volatility with strong balance sheets and growth-focused strategies.
Self-storage REITs own and manage storage facilities and collect rent from customers. Self-storage REITs rent space to both individuals and businesses.
Industrial REITs own and manage industrial facilities and rent space in those properties to tenants.
The tenure of the recovery from the current divergence in public and private real estate valuations is now approaching two years.
As highlighted in a recent Nareit commentary, the current lingering public-private real estate valuation divergence has been an unwanted visitor for commercial real estate (CRE).
In the third quarter of 2024, material progress had been made in closing the gap between REIT implied and private appraisal cap rates, but then markets changed.
U.S. REITs raised $22.5 billion from secondary debt and equity offerings in the second quarter of 2025.
A common myth tells us that ostriches bury their heads in the sand when faced with danger. While not true, the phrase “burying your head in the sand” has become a popular idiom to describe an individual who ignores the existence of a problem with the hope that it will just go away.
In today’s economy, the pace of inflation has moderated, economic growth has remained healthy, the unemployment rate has held steady, the prospects of recession have lessened, and expectations for continued monetary policy easing have proliferated.
A recent Nareit market commentary highlighted that the “ostrich effect,” an investor behavior where risky situations are avoided by pretending that they do not exist, may aptly describe the attitudes of many private institutional real estate investment managers and appraisers when it comes to their valuation practices.
Commercial property performance and valuation metrics diverge from time to time.
Self-storage REITs own and manage storage facilities and collect rent from customers.
Telecommunications REITs are a specialized segment of the broader REIT market focused on owning, managing, and leasing real estate critical to telecommunications and data transmission.