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.
CEM Benchmarking’s 2024 study also reveals allocations, returns, volatility, and risk-adjusted performance of 12 asset classes over 25-year period.
Partnerships are occurring across a range of REIT property sectors.
REITweek Investor Conference, taking place June 2-5 in New York, is the REIT industry’s largest annual gathering of executives, investors, and industry partners.
For 60 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.
The sharp decline in REIT earnings reflects the record contraction in GDP in the second quarter. Economic activity hit bottom in April, however, and began rebounding over the past four months.
Nareit’s Calvin Schnure says activity underscores health of underlying fundamentals.
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.
APG’s Rutger van der Lubbe also underscores importance of asset-level certification.
Demand for industrial space has been slowly on the upswing.
A common myth tells us that ostriches bury their heads in the sand when faced with danger. While not true, the phrase “burying your head in the sand” has become a popular idiom to describe an individual who ignores the existence of a problem with the hope that it will just go away.
The business closures and social distancing designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 had a significant impact on demand for commercial real estate, vacancies and rent growth across the major property sectors.
Reports from the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that 88% of employers have a formal diversity recruiting effort and 67% have allocated more resources to recruit historically marginalized students.
Nareit’s John Worth, Macerich’s Cory Scott, and Bisnow’s East Coast Editor joined other DC-based CRE executives for a May 10 webinar to discuss commercial real estate trends; on-demand viewing available.
Local, state, and federal governments are working to encourage adaptive reuse of commercial buildings to address the nation’s housing shortage and provide opportunities for better usage of commercial space.
Nareit VP of Research Nicole Funari adds that ecommerce, data centers, and cell towers have all performed well throughout the pandemic.
REITs have helped shape communities and the real estate investment landscape for the past six decades.
Industrial, infrastructure and data center REIT returns outpace market.
REITs declined in the week ended April 3, with a total return of -7.67%, giving back almost half of the gains they posted the week before.
At the start of the year, economists and financial markets anticipated that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) would embark on a series of target fed fund rate cuts in 2024.