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.
Partnerships are occurring across a range of REIT property sectors.
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REIT returns at mid-year are slightly ahead of the broader market.
It should come as no surprise that the top-performing sector of the REIT market varies through time, suggesting that most investors will want to maintain exposure to every part of the real estate asset class.
REITs fell sharply in January 2022 as the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 Pandemic persisted and the Federal Reserve indicated its readiness to tighten monetary policy.
It is often said that “correlations spike to one during a crisis,” but REIT-stock correlations have actually been lower during the worst stock market downturns in history, reinforcing the case for REITs as a portfolio diversifier even during crises.
Nareit’s Brad Case says 2017 marked by large disparities in market performance.
Housing finance market reform impact.
Appraisal-based valuations in private real estate markets are being systematically reported at levels that exceed those of reported transactions—in which case there may be more valuation risk in private equity real estate markets than many institutional investors realize.
The last 12 months have seen high levels of volatility and sharp swings in sentiment.
Analysts see a shift toward defensive REIT sectors.
REITs using cost of capital advantage.
Case says REITs gave back gains from October.
REIT share prices have often responded negatively to rising interest rates, at least since 2013. Is this warranted by the outlook for their future earnings?
Analysts say broader market playing "catch up." to REITs.