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.
Each year Nareit collects tax reporting data for each Nareit member. View this year's data or explore the archive.
REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
The REIT industry's premier annual conference, bringing together leaders for networking, one-on-one meetings, and insights shaping the year ahead.
For 65 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.
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 could find more buying opportunities ahead in a market where the bid-ask pricing gap between buyers and sellers is narrowing.
REITs expected to maintain a capital market transaction advantage next year.
REIT magazine asked a range of analysts to assess current conditions and offer insight into how the rest of 2022 could shape up.
REIT diversification benefits come not merely from their low correlations to other assets but also from their historically strong risk-adjusted returns.
The Nareit universe of REIT indexes is growing and evolving to match an expanding industry and increased demand for data.
REITs with low leverage and ample liquidity will be positioned to select premium properties at discounted prices, experts say.
REIT returns generally have low correlations with returns from the broad stock market. Some REIT property sectors—including Health Care, Self Storage, Residential, Infrastructure, and Data Centers—seem to be especially defensive with average correlations of 65 percent or less even during periods encompassing market crises.
In today’s economy, the pace of inflation has moderated, economic growth has remained healthy, the unemployment rate has held steady, the prospects of recession have lessened, and expectations for continued monetary policy easing have proliferated.
Value-oriented and momentum-oriented investors look to take advantage of different opportunities: value investors look for stocks selling well below normal, while momentum investors look for stocks that have done well recently. Both opportunities can be found today among sectors of the REIT market.
REITs are expected to be effective in deploying capital, especially in second half.
Rankings weigh ESG performance data and a public survey of corporate social responsibility perceptions.
Pension funds are deploying more capital to REITs to diversify and balance their portfolios.
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.
Retail REITs own, lease, and manage retail real estate and rent space in those properties to tenants.
Residential REITs own and manage various forms of residences and rent space in those properties to tenants.