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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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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Jay Hartzell is professor and chair of the Department of Finance, and executive director of the Real Estate Finance and Investment Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
REIT shares trading below NAV, and improved balance sheets have increased appeal of buybacks.
The REIT underweight for generalist funds benchmarked against the S&P 500 declined from 114 basis points in 2016Q4 to just 62 basis points as of 2021Q2.
Total REIT FFO was 3.6 percent higher than in the fourth quarter of 2017 and 6.0 percent above over one year ago.
"We find that the use of unsecured debt by REIT managers is associated with lower leverage and higher remaining debt capacity. This improves financial flexibility and supports firm value."
Nareit’s annual update of REIT property counts and estimated gross asset values by state and property sector is now available on the REITs Across America website.
Although the lingering CRE valuation divergence has been disruptive, it has created opportunities for investors and benefited REITs.
REITs have also prepared themselves for economic uncertainty by building up their stock of cash and cash-like assets and maintaining substantial unused lines of credit.
Experts say it’s important for ETFs to embrace REITs, and vice versa.
Sixty years after the inception of REITs, industry leaders reflect on what might lie ahead for REITs.
Self-storage, manufactured homes and mortgage REITs among best performers.
NAREIT provides more than 20 years of REIT dividend data that are used by investors and academics alike.
Analysts say concerns about interest rates put pressure on REITs in October.
More than 160 companies have submitted 2016 information for NAREIT’s annual effort to collect data on IRS Form 1099-DIV reporting by stock exchange-listed and public non-listed NAREIT member companies.
NAREIT’s Calvin Schnure says occupancy rates at record highs.
Green Street’s new Director of Research Cedrik Lachance says real estate is in a good spot right now, with strong fundamentals and a runway for growth for property sectors worst hit by COVID-19 as well as those that flourished during the crisis.