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.
Nareit's John Worth along with Brandon Benjamin of Brookfield Asset Management will discuss the performance for the second quarter of 2025 and upcoming trends.
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.
For decades, defined benefit (DB) pension plans have been using real estate successfully within their investment portfolios.
Industrial, data center, infrastructure and manufactured home REITs among top performers.
Tariff actions have introduced uncertainty into U.S. financial and economic markets.
The REIT industry has committed to making meaningful strides on diversity, equity, and inclusion across its ranks.
The headline for the Mortgage REIT industry is a big one: the dividends paid by exchange-traded Mortgage REITs yield 10.54%, on average, as of the beginning of February 2017.
For those in the know in the real estate investment business, David Auerbach’s daily market commentary has become indispensable reading for many institutions.
Data center REITs see pipeline of new opportunities and long-term demand potential.
NAREIT’s Calvin Schnure says T-Tracker offers first industry-wide measure of REIT performance.
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.
Commercial property performance and valuation metrics diverge from time to time.
REITs are expected to be effective in deploying capital, especially in second half.
Citi’s Michael Bilerman recently spoke with REIT magazine on issues ranging from real estate cap rates and valuations, to the importance of asking difficult questions.
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.
The June results show an improvement for most sectors, suggesting that re-openings of the retail sector in many parts of the country in May have had a positive economic impact for retail REITs.
Free-Standing Retail REITs rent collected see jump of more than 12 percentage points; Industrial sector remains strongest performer.
Sixty years after the inception of REITs, industry leaders reflect on what might lie ahead for REITs.