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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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The current bull market for exchange-listed equity REITs has rewarded investors with returns averaging more than 21% per year over the past 8½ years—but by the standards of previous real estate market cycles this one has not even hit its stride yet.
Alex Beath is a senior research analyst at CEM Benchmarking. Nareit recently collaborated with CEM to analyse more than two decades of U.S. pension fund performance data.
The price-to-NAV spread estimated at the end of 2016 suggests that total returns on exchange-traded Equity REITs would average about 13.6% per year over the next five years.
Third quarter REIT performance, sector outlooks, and the closing gap between public and private real estate valuations took center stage during the “FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Indexes in Review and What’s Next” webinar.
Appraisal-based valuations in private real estate markets are being systematically reported at levels that exceed those of reported transactions—in which case there may be more valuation risk in private equity real estate markets than many institutional investors realize.
Commercial property performance and valuation metrics diverge from time to time.
Assessing the state of today’s U.S. economy can be confusing.
An increase in interest rates might be cause for concern if it were predicted to come with no accompanying increase in net operating income—but it’s those changes in net operating income, not the interest rates themselves, that should attract the closest attention of investors in any equity asset such as real estate.
Cohen & Steers’ Jon Cheigh says REITs should also maintain entrepreneurial and visionary attributes.
Nareit’s REITweek: 2026 Investor Conference brought more than 2,300 members of the REIT community to New York City on June 1-4, including representatives from more than 1,600 companies and organizations across the listed real estate and investment industries.
First quarter REIT performance, early second quarter performance, and how REITs are positioned amid current market volatility was the focus of the April 8 webinar, “FTSE Nareit US Real Estate Indexes in Review & What’s Next.”
Timber, office, and data centers led with returns of 15.9%, 10.4%, and 7.3%, respectively.
Actively managed funds represent 7% of REIT market capitalization and they have been a key element in REITs’ long-term success because of their combined real estate and equity investment expertise and analysis.
The yield spread to Baa corporates as of the end of 2016 was in the bullish part of its historic range—and if a wide variety of estimates of the past relationship between spreads and forward-looking returns continues to hold, that currently bullish spread would suggest relatively bullish future total returns for investors in exchange-traded Equity REITs.
I think that investors often view public and private real estate investment as an “either-or” decision, but that does not have to be the case.