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.
Nareit’s 2026 outlook addresses the topics that have been on the minds of real estate investors, including valuation divergences, compelling opportunities, and global strategies.
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.
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.
Kansas-based REIT QTS Realty Trust, Inc. acquired the site for $18 million in 2014 and redeveloped it into a 475,000 square-foot data center.
Nareit’s REITworld: 2025 Annual Conference convened 1,000 REIT leaders and industry professionals Dec. 8–11 in Dallas.
Nareit’s REITwise 2026: Education Conference convened more than 1,200 real estate executives and REIT industry professionals March 24-26 in Hollywood, Fla.
Analysts say the high cost of home ownership remains a strong tailwind for the sector.
Retailers have long been adept at catering to consumers’ desires to get more for less. In the mid-1960s, Kmart started its Blue Light Specials.
David Bonser, a global managing partner at Hogan Lovells, says with M&A activity robust and financing readily available, REITs are in a much better place today than was expected just six or 12 months ago.
Nareit’s Fifth REIT Industry ESG Report Offers Overview of REITs’ Environmental, Social, and Governance Practices
For decades, defined benefit (DB) pension plans have been using real estate successfully within their investment portfolios.
Top-performing real estate fund managers reflect on 2016 and offer insight into 2017.
Housing finance market reform impact.
There’s a persistent, predictable relationship between the liquid and illiquid real estate markets: private-side real estate valuations respond more slowly to changes in market conditions than do public-side valuations, so the values in private, illiquid markets typically lag public market values by two to five quarters on average, depending on whether participants in private markets are evaluating market conditions by looking at completed transactions or at property appraisals. Correcting for that lag can give you a pretty good sense of whether a public/private arbitrage opportunity has arisen.