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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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Office REITs own and manage office real estate and rent space in those properties to a variety of tenants.
Do we need to worry that equity REITs are carrying too much debt?
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.
Case says REITs gave back gains from October.
Experts say it’s important for ETFs to embrace REITs, and vice versa.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index, broader markets, and treasuries responded positively as investors broadly believe the Federal Reserve’s cycle of monetary policy tightening to be over.
A recent Nareit commentary highlighted the stubbornly slow-to-close and wide public-private real estate cap rate spread.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index remained essentially unchanged in May, posting a narrow total return of 0.1%. Despite the flat monthly performance, REITs continue to lead on a year-to-date basis.
REITs significantly outperformed the broader stock market in February, with the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index posting a total return of 7.5%, while the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market and Russell 1000 both fell 0.5%.
With a Wave of Bank Debt Coming Due, REITs Ready to Capitalize.
Millennials helped keep the residential REIT sector going strong during a volatile 2015.
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.
Nareit analysis of data from Preqin, a financial research firm that tracks investments in alternative assets, indicates that the use of REITs by pension plans has been increasing, particularly among the largest, most sophisticated plans.
Institutional investors are increasingly implementing portfolio completion strategies, which use REITs to “complete” their portfolios, ensuring they reflect the current real estate universe.
In September, REITs and stocks posted their worst monthly performance since March 2020, as a hawkish Federal Reserve warned that measures to bring inflation under control could bring “some pain” to U.S. financial markets, and Treasury yields continued to rise.
REITs and broad market equities faced challenges in August, as the sharply rising 10-year Treasury yield hit 4.34%, its highest level since 2007, and then declined to 4.09% in the final week of the month.