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.
I think it’s very difficult to make any thoughtful (let alone empirically based) case for predicting that the current real estate market cycle is nearing its end. The evidence simply isn’t there.
Nareit individual members receive exclusive benefits, including opportunities for business development, lead generation, thought leadership, professional development and more.
Despite better performance, REITs remain underutilized by pensions.
Survey by Altus Group, NAREIT and NCREIF reveals top commercial real estate investment choices of leading executives.
With inflation remaining at 40-year highs, interest rates escalating, and economic growth contracting, the U.S. economy is in a precarious state.
REITs evolve over time to support economic growth.
Nareit and its REESA partners continue to advance adoption of the REIT model worldwide.
Appraisal-based valuations in private real estate markets are being systematically reported at levels that exceed those of reported transactions—in which case there may be more valuation risk in private equity real estate markets than many institutional investors realize.
Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) recently published a discussion note, “Drivers of Listed and Unlisted Real Estate Returns,” which analyzes the drivers of U.S. public and private real estate returns and evaluates real estate exposures in the context of a diversified investment portfolio.
Research says pension funds are leaving returns on the table by under-allocating to REITs.
There’s little difference between the income earned by the largest, most sophisticated investors in private equity real estate and the income earned by the smallest individual investors in listed equity REITs.