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REITs have provided that diversification benefit because their underlying returns are driven by the real estate market cycle, which is very different from the business cycle that drives the returns of most other companies in the stock 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.
Listed equity REITs have generally outperformed small-cap value stocks, posting slightly higher returns but substantially lower volatility and substantially better diversification benefits.
I think it’s very difficult to make any thoughtful (let alone empirically based) case for predicting that the current real estate market cycle is nearing its end. The evidence simply isn’t there.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index gained 2.8% in July, bringing its 2026 return to 11.9%, while the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Index returned 2.7% for the month and has gained 13.2% year-to-date.
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.
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.
Infrastructure, data center REITs among top performers.
Industrial, data center, infrastructure and manufactured home REITs among top performers.
A new sector for real estate sounds like a prescription for lower REIT volatility and better diversification from the broader market.
This month marks 25 years since the transformative inclusion of REITs into S&P.
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.
REIT magazine asked a range of analysts to assess current conditions and offer insight into how the rest of 2022 could shape up.
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.
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.