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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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In this mid-year review and outlook, Nareit’s research team reviews the macroeconomic environment, REIT returns and operational performance at the halfway point of the year.
The economic damage caused by COVID-19 is unprecedented, but the economy may be ready to start recovering in the second half of 2020.
Though REITs have not been immune to capital market uncertainty and mortgage market turmoil, they continue to have sound operations, solid balance sheets, and successful equity and unsecured debt issuances in the capital markets.
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The August survey focuses on three property subsectors: apartments, free standing retail, and shopping center retail. The results show gains made last month for retail have held steady for free standing and improved further for shopping centers.
Commercial real estate has gone through many boom/bust cycles in the past. These cycles have inevitably affected the performance of REITs through their impact on rents, vacancy rates and property valuations. There are certain features that are common to nearly all these cycles, including overbuilding and a relaxation of risk standards by builders, lenders and investors. There are also differences across these cycles, however, much as Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina, “each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
A wide range of indicators from GDP, labor markets, housing markets and commercial real estate are consistent with continued economic growth and improving real estate markets and REIT earnings in 2020.
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With everyday life upended by the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, the commercial real estate industry is shifting on a daily basis.
The economic backdrop today suggests that REITs are poised to continue their recent solid performance in the second half of 2019 and into 2020.
If there has been any theme to the economic recovery over the past eight years, it has been “two steps forward, one step back,” and the first quarter is one of those steps back. The medium-term outlook for both the macroeconomy and for real estate and REITs, however, remains positive.
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The next year is likely to be a good but not great one for real estate, with solid job growth, consumer spending and business activity driving demand for nearly all types of commercial real estate.