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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Retail REITs boost overall performance.
REIT returns nearly doubled those of the broader equity market in the first eight months of 2016. The FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index, the broadest benchmark of the U.S. REIT market containing both Equity and Mortgage REITs, delivered a 14.18 percent total return in the year through August.
How to construct an inflation-protecting portfolio without exposing yourself to the risk of guessing wrong about an increase the inflation rate.
It should come as no surprise that the top-performing sector of the REIT market varies through time, suggesting that most investors will want to maintain exposure to every part of the real estate asset class.
While valuations are somewhat different across different segments of the REIT industry, there is a “wealth of undervaluation” in REITs today—and investors certainly should be paying closer attention.
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.
REITs fell sharply in January 2022 as the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 Pandemic persisted and the Federal Reserve indicated its readiness to tighten monetary policy.
Industrial, infrastructure and data center REIT returns outpace market.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index, which includes 163 equity REITs, advanced 7.73% in the third quarter and 28.49% in the first three quarters of 2019.
A wide range of indicators from GDP, labor markets, housing markets and commercial real estate are consistent with continued economic growth and improving real estate markets and REIT earnings in 2020.
Data center and industrial REITs show highest returns during the month.
As of May 21, which marks 15 months since the market peak prior to the pandemic, REIT total returns have fully recovered from the initial losses in early 2020.
Infrastructure, data center REITs among top performers.
It is often said that “correlations spike to one during a crisis,” but REIT-stock correlations have actually been lower during the worst stock market downturns in history, reinforcing the case for REITs as a portfolio diversifier even during crises.
Stock exchange-listed U.S. REITs delivered total returns more than double those of the broader equity market in the year through July.