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.
REITweek Investor Conference, taking place June 2-5 in New York, is the REIT industry’s largest annual gathering of executives, investors, and industry partners.
For 60 years, Nareit has led the U.S. REIT industry by ensuring its members’ best interests are promoted by providing unparalleled advocacy, investor outreach, continuing education and networking.
Recent research by Nareit shows that REIT returns have tended to bounce back—and even surge—after significant public and private real estate market divergences.
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.
Fourth quarter REIT performance, the outlook for REITs, and the global REIT industry took center stage during the Jan.14 “FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Indexes in Review and What’s Next” webinar.
Office REITs own and manage office real estate and rent space in those properties to a variety of tenants.
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 are gaining ground in their efforts to attract generalist investors.
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.
With inflation remaining at 40-year highs, interest rates escalating, and economic growth contracting, the U.S. economy is in a precarious state.
REITs work to attract larger allocations from retail investors.
ESG issues are a growing priority for investors, making it increasingly important for REITs to thoroughly disclose how they are performing.
Leading real estate fund managers reflect on the challenges and opportunities ahead for 2019.
Over long periods, REITs have outpeformed the broad indexes in terms of dividend yields.
Canada’s REIT industry celebrates a quarter century.
Listed equity REITs have generally outperformed small-cap value stocks, posting slightly higher returns but substantially lower volatility and substantially better diversification benefits.
Interest rate cuts are expected to provide a strong tailwind behind a positive REIT outlook.
Leading real estate fund managers reflect on gains made in 2019 and assess the outlook for REITs and listed real estate in 2020.