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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Interest rate cuts are expected to provide a strong tailwind behind a positive REIT outlook.
The path of the pandemic and the vaccines will continue to hold the keys for the economy and commercial real estate, and for stock markets, in 2021.
Funds from operations (FFO) for all equity REITs increased 7.4 percent in 2018’s fourth quarter over the same quarter in 2017.
Data center REITs own and manage highly specialized facilities that house the critical IT infrastructure that powers today’s economy.
FFO rose 5.6% as the economy reopened and REITs display resilience with strong balance sheets, low leverage ratios.
NAREIT’s Brad Case says REIT dividend yields remain high relative to other assets.
Occupancy Rates Remain Near Record High While Leverage Reaches New Low.
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.
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.
Manufactured home, industrial, and data center REITs among the year’s top performing sectors.
Industrial, infrastructure and data center REIT returns outpace market.
REITs have helped shape communities and the real estate investment landscape for the past six decades.
Retail REITs boost overall performance.
While publicly traded equity REIT performance has recently been exhibiting an inverse relationship with U.S. 10-year Treasury yield movements, this has not always been the case.
First quarter REIT performance, early second quarter performance, and how REITs are positioned amid current market volatility was the focus of the April 8 webinar, “FTSE Nareit US Real Estate Indexes in Review & What’s Next.”
Listed equity REITs have generally outperformed small-cap value stocks, posting slightly higher returns but substantially lower volatility and substantially better diversification benefits.