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On Tuesday, Nov. 10, more than 150 industry professionals attended Nareit’s “REIT Investing Webinar: The Role of REITs in Your Portfolio.”
New data from the first quarter of 2025 demonstrate that REITs continue to maintain well-structured debt—90.9% of listed REITs’ total debt was at a fixed rate while 79.4% of their total debt was unsecured, according to Nareit’s quarterly REIT Industry Tracker released today.
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.
Historically, when REIT dividend yields became high relative to the yields on other income-oriented investments, that has usually been a sign that REITs had become undervalued and were likely to perform strongly over the next several years.
Listed equity REITs are being used to complete investors’ private real estate portfolios.
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.
FTSE Nareit All REITs Index Shows 1.46% Gain in Q3
Funds from operations (FFO) for all equity REITs increased 7.4 percent in 2018’s fourth quarter over the same quarter in 2017.
FFO rose 5.6% as the economy reopened and REITs display resilience with strong balance sheets, low leverage ratios.
Recent research by Nareit shows that REIT returns have tended to bounce back—and even surge—after significant public and private real estate market divergences.
REITs outperform private real estate by nearly 2.3% in defined benefit (DB) plans, according to a new study by CEM Benchmarking, Inc.
Analysts say the high cost of home ownership remains a strong tailwind for the sector.
Listed equity REITs have generally outperformed small-cap value stocks, posting slightly higher returns but substantially lower volatility and substantially better diversification benefits.
Occupancy Rates Remain Near Record High While Leverage Reaches New Low.
REITs posted solid funds from operations (FFO) in the third quarter of 2025 and maintained strong balance sheets with well-structured debt, according to Nareit’s quarterly REIT Industry Tracker released today.
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 increased in the last six years.