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The current bull market for exchange-listed equity REITs has rewarded investors with returns averaging more than 21% per year over the past 8½ years—but by the standards of previous real estate market cycles this one has not even hit its stride yet.
Infrastructure, data center REITs among top performers.
REITs work to attract larger allocations from retail investors.
A new sector for real estate sounds like a prescription for lower REIT volatility and better diversification from the broader market.
REIT magazine asked a range of analysts to assess current conditions and offer insight into how the rest of 2022 could shape up.
The yield spread to Treasuries as of the end of 2016 was in the bullish part of its historic range—and if a wide variety of estimates of the past relationship between spreads and forward-looking returns continues to hold, that currently bullish spread would suggest relatively bullish future total returns for investors in exchange-traded Equity REITs.
Industrial, data center, infrastructure and manufactured home REITs among top performers.
Will the gap be closed through underperformance in what may be an overvalued private real estate market, overperformance in what seems very clearly to be an undervalued listed REIT market, or a little of both?
REITs have reduced their reliance on borrowings, which lowered leverage ratios considerably over the past decade.
Occupancy Rates Remain Near Record High While Leverage Reaches New Low.
NAREIT’s Brad Case says REIT dividend yields remain high relative to other assets.
Historically, when REIT dividend yields became high relative to the yields on other income-oriented investments, that has usually been a sign that REITs had become undervalued and were likely to perform strongly over the next several years.
I think it’s very difficult to make any thoughtful (let alone empirically based) case for predicting that the current real estate market cycle is nearing its end. The evidence simply isn’t there.
Shopping center REIT returns led gains last month.
REITs outpaced broader market during month and on year-to-date basis.