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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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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On a global basis, data centers, industrial, and self-storage have been the strongest performing sectors in 2023.
REIT returns at mid-year are slightly ahead of the broader market.
Industrial, data center, infrastructure and manufactured home REITs among top performers.
S&P 500 posts a total return of 12 percent.
REITs outpaced broader market during month and on year-to-date basis.
Infrastructure, data centers, and health care each have more than a 10% share of assets.
REITs outperformed the broader market in the first quarter of 2019.
Interest rate cuts are expected to provide a strong tailwind behind a positive REIT outlook.
NAREIT’s Brad Case says REIT dividend yields remain high relative to other assets.
Rising interest rates worry real estate investors. Their fears are rooted in the view that interest rate increases will result in rising cap rates and, all else being equal, declining property values.
Analysts say concerns about interest rates put pressure on REITs in October.
REITs average higher returns over multi-year time horizons compared to private real estate with a broader allocation across innovative property sectors, according to Nareit analysis of past performance.
The commercial real estate (CRE) mortgage market has changed dramatically since the end of 2021. For many real estate investors, gone are the days of low-cost, readily available property financing.
REITs have outperformed private real estate property and fund indexes through the fourth quarter of 2021 and have an annual increase of 41.3% in 2021 compared to 22.2% for private real estate.
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.