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.
Each year Nareit collects tax reporting data for each Nareit member. View this year's data or explore the archive.
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.
A conversation about how REITs are navigating capital markets and economic uncertainty took center stage during the lunch general session on day one of Nareit’s REITweek: 2025 Investor Conference.
Listed U.S. REITs returned +7.53% during January 2015 according to the FTSE NAREIT All REIT Index, which measures the total returns (stock price appreciation plus dividend payments) of all REITs traded on major stock exchanges in the U.S. In contrast, the broad U.S. stock market suffered a decline at -1.47% according to the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index. Small-cap value stocks—sometimes mistakenly considered similar to REITs—did even worse at -2.11% according to the Russell 2000 Value Index, while large-cap stocks also underperformed at -1.73% according to the S&P 500 Index.
Nareit shares the strides that its member REITs are taking to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and how they are recognizing Black History Month this year.
Nareit joined several CRE associations, alongside consumer products, manufacturers, and retail sector representatives, in demonstrating support for the non-regulatory, public-private partnership ENERGY STAR program.
Macroeconomic data generally suggest that the U.S. economy remains in an extended period of soft growth and soft inflation—in fact, Federal Reserve officials have signaled their intent to continue monetary stimulus and tolerate slightly higher inflation to protect against further macro weakening. How have REIT investors fared in past periods of strong or weak macroeconomic growth, and high or low price inflation?
The social impact platform's student training program was funded by the Nareit DDEI Giving Campaign in 2023.
The Washington update panel, held during Nareit’s REITworks: 2020 Virtual Conference, discussed tax legislation and proposals affecting commercial real estate with a focus on the current election, diversity and inclusion, and COVID-19.
REITs extended their weekly winning streak to three weeks of gains, and are up five of the past six weeks.
REITs have provided that diversification benefit because their underlying returns are driven by the real estate market cycle, which is very different from the business cycle that drives the returns of most other companies in the stock market.
Nareit members are invited to submit news stories, photos, social posts, and videos of their National Hispanic Heritage Month observances.
On Jan. 21, Nareit’s Ayris T. Scales joined a Nareit DDEI grantee, the American Hotel & Lodging Association Foundation (AHLAF), during its 6th Annual Gala, Night of a Thousand Stars.
Updates from Nareit's 2017 Annual Convention.
Over the first six months of 2017 the broad U.S. stock market had outperformed the REIT market, with the Russell 3000 Index showing total returns of 8.93% compared to just 5.43% for the FTSE NAREIT All REIT Index. Dig just a little deeper, though, and this turns out not to be a “stocks vs REITs” story at all.
The multi-family REIT highlights data driven approach to improving efficiency across 300+ property portfolio.
In more normal times a weekly move up or down of nearly 4% would be major news, but in a period of heightened volatility during the covid-19 crisis, this is the smallest move in quite a while.