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.
Each year Nareit collects tax reporting data for each Nareit member. View this year's data or explore the archive.
The $350 million revitalization of Pier 94 was led by a joint venture between Vornado Realty Trust, Hudson Pacific Properties, and Blackstone Real Estate.
REITweek is the largest REIT-focused event, connecting institutional investors with REIT management teams through company presentations, one-on-one meetings, and curated networking.
For 65 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.
Nareit offers a variety of advertising opportunities to reach a targeted audience of REIT and publicly traded real estate C-suite executives, REIT leaders, analysts, and institutional investors, as well as everyday investors interested in commercial real estate.
Nareit®, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts®, serves as the worldwide representative voice for REITs and real estate companies with an interest in U.S. real estate. Nareit’s members are REITs and other real estate companies throughout the world that own, operate, and finance income-producing real estate, as well as those firms and individuals who advise, study, and service those businesses.
Institutional investors are increasingly using REITs as part of their portfolio completion strategies. Nareit’s series of institutional investor case studies shows how investors are using REITs to achieve sector diversification, geographic diversification, and to capitalize on tactical opportunities.
Nareit corporate members receive exclusive benefits, including access to advocacy, investors, regulatory engagement, thought leadership, industry-leading research, professional development, member-only events, and more.
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.
New NAREIT-sponsored research from Wilshire Funds Management shows that adding a range of high income-producing assets, including REITs, to a traditional retirement-stage portfolio would have boosted income returns by nearly 40 percent.
New research from Wilshire Funds Management has shown how adding a range of high income-generating assets, including REITs, to model retirement portfolios would have produced a nearly 40 percent gain in income returns while maintaining nearly the same total returns and risk profiles as retirement portfolios with more traditional investment allocations.
With everyday life upended by the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, the commercial real estate industry is shifting on a daily basis.
Nareit and its members participate with industry stakeholders on various initiatives and programs that impact the broader commercial real estate community.
Research says pension funds are leaving returns on the table by under-allocating to REITs.
Pension funds are deploying more capital to REITs to diversify and balance their portfolios.
U.S. REITs raised $21.3 billion from secondary debt and equity offerings in the third quarter of 2025. Of that total, $14.0 billion came from debt offerings, $6.6 billion came from common equity offerings, and $740 million came from preferred equity offerings. The first REIT IPO of 2025, with a focus on the data center segment, priced on September 30 and began trading in October.
In 2023, four deals to acquire publicly-listed REITs have been announced, with a total deal value of $20.4 billion and 97% of the value reflecting acquisitions by listed REITs.
REIT magazine asked a range of analysts to assess current conditions and offer insight into how the rest of 2022 could shape up.