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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Charmaine Brown says workforce strategy should be viewed as a business driver tied directly to performance, resilience, and long-term value.
Everyone loves a bargain. With the current Black Friday sales season in full swing, consumers are awash with opportunities to stretch their holiday shopping dollars. Investors also appreciate good values.
Vacancy rates are likely to remain low as adult members of shared households eventually strike out on their own. However, that the process may take longer than anticipated.
Parkway’s Daniele Horton says 100 percent of portfolio benchmarked to ENERGY STAR.
Space market fundamentals can differ markedly across property types
At the end of 2020, U.S. public REITs owned an estimated 502,937 properties and 15.1 million acres of timberland across the U.S.
A recent Nareit commentary explored average annual net total returns for REITs and total private real estate, as well as private real estate investment styles, using realized pension fund performance from CEM Benchmarking.
REITWEEK 2015 panelists see conditions in capital markets as favorable.
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.
Financial markets have been troubled by a decline in corporate profits. Earnings per share of the S&P 500 fell 7.6 percent in the first quarter of 2016 compared to last year, prompting a drop in equity prices and concerns about the outlook. But trends are going the other direction in real estate.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index posted a total return of 9.3% year-to-date through June 10, while the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Index returned 9.4% over the same period.
Prentiss Feagles says the dynamic nature of the REIT industry has kept him engaged.
Total returns of stock exchange-listed U.S. REITs, led by Mortgage REITs, climbed in June, the second quarter and the first half of 2017, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts reported.
The new Real Estate Industry group will be segmented out of the ICB’s Financials Industry group, of which it currently is a part.
NAREIT’s Calvin Schnure says REITs immune to “choppy” economic fundamentals.