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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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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REIT dividends can be taxed at different rates because they can be allocated to ordinary income, capital gains and return of capital. The maximum capital gains tax rate of 20% (plus the 3.8% Medicare Surtax) applies generally to the sale of REIT stock.
New data from the third quarter of 2024 show that REITs have strong balance sheets and healthy net operating income (NOI) growth, according to Nareit’s REIT Industry Tracker, released today.
Nareit’s Calvin Schnure also sees most REIT sectors collecting nearly all their rent.
The June results show an improvement for most sectors, suggesting that re-openings of the retail sector in many parts of the country in May have had a positive economic impact for retail REITs.
With everyday life upended by the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, the commercial real estate industry is shifting on a daily basis.
REITs (real estate investment trusts) are a practical way for all investors to invest in large-scale, income-producing, professionally managed companies that own commercial real estate. Here are answers to fundamental questions about REITs.
Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, visited the Norwalk Data Center, which is owned and operated by CyrusOne.
In the second quarter of 2024, active managers increased allocations in the digital sectors and health care.
W.P. Carey Inc. strives to be an industry leader in environmental sustainability by taking a proactive and collaborative approach to quantifying and reducing its portfolio’s global carbon footprint.
Office, data center, residential and retail REITs share individual lessons.
Brent Obleton says leaders should articulate what DEI means to them, and use data to back that up.
REITs are real estate with attractive performance attributes. In research sponsored by Nareit, CEM Benchmarking took a comprehensive look at investment allocations and realized investment performance across 12 asset classes over a 25-year period (1998–2022) using a dataset covering more than 200 U.S public- and private-sector pensions with $4.1 trillion in combined assets under management (AUM).
Actively managed funds represent 7% of REIT market capitalization and they have been a key element in REITs’ long-term success because of their combined real estate and equity investment expertise and analysis.