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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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.
REITs expected to maintain a capital market transaction advantage next year.
FTSE Nareit All REITs Index Shows 13.96% Gain in Q2
A recent research note by Hodes Weill & Associates (HW) called REITs versus Private Real Estate Funds: Partners, Not Rivals addressed the merits of public and private real estate in an institutional investor’s portfolio.
Listed equity REITs have generally outperformed small-cap value stocks, posting slightly higher returns but substantially lower volatility and substantially better diversification benefits.
Housing finance market reform impact.
Nareit’s REITwise 2026: Education Conference convened more than 1,200 real estate executives and REIT industry professionals March 24-26 in Hollywood, Fla.
Nareit’s REITwise 2025: Law, Accounting & Finance Conference convened nearly 1,100 real estate executives and REIT industry professionals March 25-27 in San Antonio, Texas.
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.
Office REITs own and manage office real estate and rent space in those properties to a variety of tenants.
Commercial property performance and valuation metrics diverge from time to time.
Despite better performance, REITs remain underutilized by pensions.
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.
REITs are gaining ground in their efforts to attract generalist investors.