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.
REITweek is the largest REIT-focused event, connecting institutional investors with REIT management teams through company presentations, one-on-one meetings, and curated networking.
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.
Nareit’s annual update of REIT property counts and estimated gross asset values by state and property sector is now available on the REITs Across America website.
REITs see reinvestment as essential, flexible element of broader strategy to position assets in strongest possible way.
Data centers, infrastructure, and self storage REIT sectors all had weekly returns exceeding 2.0%.
Fifty-four listed equity REITs responded between April 8 and April 15, representing most property sectors and almost $418 billion in equity market capitalization or 44% of the FTSE Nareit All Equity REIT equity market capitalization.
On a global basis, data centers, industrial, and self-storage have been the strongest performing sectors in 2023.
"We find that the use of unsecured debt by REIT managers is associated with lower leverage and higher remaining debt capacity. This improves financial flexibility and supports firm value."
U.S. REITs raised $25.4 billion from IPOs and secondary debt and equity offerings in the first quarter of 2022.
Across the various REIT sectors, there were seven property sectors with gains for the week, led by lodging/resorts with a total return of 7.6%.
Sixty years after the inception of REITs, industry leaders reflect on what might lie ahead for REITs.
Free-Standing Retail REITs rent collected see jump of more than 12 percentage points; Industrial sector remains strongest performer.
Timber, office, and data centers led with returns of 15.9%, 10.4%, and 7.3%, respectively.
New research from Wilshire Funds Management illustrates the benefits of REIT dividends for income oriented investment portfolios.
Nareit and Wilshire Associates participated in a webinar hosted by FTSE Russell.
A recent Nareit market commentary highlighted that the “ostrich effect,” an investor behavior where risky situations are avoided by pretending that they do not exist, may aptly describe the attitudes of many private institutional real estate investment managers and appraisers when it comes to their valuation practices.