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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New data from the first quarter of 2025 demonstrate that REITs continue to maintain well-structured debt—90.9% of listed REITs’ total debt was at a fixed rate while 79.4% of their total debt was unsecured, according to Nareit’s quarterly REIT Industry Tracker released today.
Pizzola points to a steady increase in the number of jobs supported by REITs.
CEO Andy Power says, “we’re in the largest infrastructure build-out in the history of mankind.”
The pandemic has accelerated the adoption of certain technologies and forced many executives to begin rethinking how to utilize and leverage real estate.
Focus on premier market segment, diversification, balance sheet strength among priorities
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As pension, endowment, foundation, and sovereign fund investors evaluate the benefits that exposure to commercial real estate bring to investment portfolios, they should know that stock exchange-listed REITs and real estate securities offer meaningful advantages as a way of obtaining that exposure.
Across the globe, 42 countries and regions have adopted the U.S.-based REIT approach to real estate investment, offering all investors access to portfolios of income producing real estate. Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds offer the easiest and most efficient way for investors to add global listed real estate allocations to portfolios.
REIT executives discuss how real estate is embracing technology across the property spectrum.
Evidence is emerging that hybrid or remote work is becoming a permanent feature for many office workers.
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.
Nareit’s Calvin Schnure says REIT earnings fell in Q2, but T-Tracker will include data highlighting REIT resiliency during the crisis.
Most REITs operate as equity REITs, providing investors with the opportunity to invest in portfolios of income-producing real estate. These companies own properties in a range of real estate sectors that are leased to tenants, such as office buildings, shopping centers, apartment complexes and more. They are required to distribute a minimum of 90% of their income to shareholders in the form of dividends.