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.
Nareit’s 2026 outlook addresses the topics that have been on the minds of real estate investors, including valuation divergences, compelling opportunities, and global strategies.
REITwise will take place March 24-26 in Hollywood, FL. This event is the leading educational conference for REITs, covering technical, regulatory, and operational updates.
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.
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.
U.S. REITs achieved moderate earnings growth in the first quarter of 2018. Sustained earnings growth contributed to a decline in the industry’s aggregate price-to-FFO ratio to 15.8x, underscoring attractive valuations amid solid industry fundamentals.
Expert panelists question if a shift in Fed policy in 2019 will return REITs to their fundamental valuations, as opposed to interest-rate driven valuations.
The recently updated study provides a comprehensive review of investment allocations and actual investment performance across 12 asset groups over an 18-year period.
For decades, defined benefit (DB) pension plans have been using real estate successfully within their investment portfolios.
REIT active management can consistently add net value to commercial real estate (CRE) portfolios, according to a new study by CEM Benchmarking, Inc.
A close examination of REIT financial exposures suggests that increases in interest rates may have little impact on their operating performance.
REIT fundamentals remain healthy.
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.
For nearly two decades, Merrie Frankel has been a familiar face around the REIT industry as a REIT analyst with Moody’s Investors Service. She decided in the fall that she was ready for a change.
While valuations are somewhat different across different segments of the REIT industry, there is a “wealth of undervaluation” in REITs today—and investors certainly should be paying closer attention.
A comparison of recent trends of the P/E ratio for the S&P 500 to the price-to-FFO ratio for REITs shows a contrasting risk/reward tradeoff between the broad equity market and REITs.
The Real Estate Equity Securitization Alliance hosted a conference last week that featured leaders from seven global real estate associations and attracted 100 participants worldwide.
Pension, endowment, and foundation funds control over $12 trillion in total assets, with approximately $900 billion invested in real estate.