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.
Experts say it’s important for ETFs to embrace REITs, and vice versa.
REITworld will take place Dec. 8-11 in Dallas, TX. This event provides opportunities for individual meetings between REITs, investors, and analysts.
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.
Mortgage REITs are likely to benefit from trends in the mortgage markets that will present opportunities in the months and years ahead.
REITs have reduced their reliance on borrowings, which lowered leverage ratios considerably over the past decade.
Cambridge Associates reports that private equity real estate funds have underperformed listed equity REITs by 3.91 percentage points per year over the past 25 years.
For nearly two decades, Merrie Frankel has been a familiar face around the REIT industry as a REIT analyst with Moody’s Investors Service. She decided in the fall that she was ready for a change.
New data from the first quarter of 2024 show that REITs continue to maintain well-structured debt.
Nareit’s REITwise 2024: Law, Accounting & Finance Conference convened almost 1,100 real estate executives and REIT industry professionals this week.
Public-to-public deals dominate REIT M&A activity today.
In 2021 REIT capital market activity has been highlighted by the announcement of eleven REIT mergers.
New Data Highlight Solid NOI Growth, Strong Balance Sheets
REITs have made important changes over the past decade in their overall leverage ratios, as well as the composition and structure of their debt.
April and early May capital markets activity was highlighted by the announcement of three large REIT mergers. So far in 2021, U.S. REITs have raised over $26 billion in IPOs and secondary debt and equity offerings.
Strong balance sheets promote acquisitions, new development.
The lingering public-private real estate valuation divergence has been disruptive, but it continues to offer potential buying opportunities for investors.
In 2024, U.S. listed REITs distributed approximately $66 billion in dividends, as reflected in Nareit’s REIT Industry Tracker.
Leading REIT analysts review the outlook for the data center, health care, industrial, infrastructure, lodging, multifamily, office, retail, self-storage, and timber real estate sectors.
REIT balance sheet strength, driven by low leverage and fixed-rate debt, offers resilience and flexibility amid market volatility and rising rates.