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.
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CEM Benchmarking’s 2024 study also reveals allocations, returns, volatility, and risk-adjusted performance of 12 asset classes over 25-year period.
Partnerships are occurring across a range of REIT property sectors.
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The recent Cornell University/Hodes Weill’s 2024 Allocations Monitor report found that in 2023, institutions were more active allocating capital to REITs, as investors looked to capitalize on discrepancies between public and private market valuations.
Many employers are eager for pre-pandemic, in-office operations to resume, but many workers remain reluctant to return.
Last week’s decline breaks a string of gains the to prior weeks, but REITs are still up 2.1% month-to-date.
Last week’s increase raised the year-to-date returns above 30%, to 30.2%.
REITs had a small positive total return last week with a gain of 0.1% on the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index.
Last week’s gains lifted year-to-date returns to 9.6%.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs index rose 1.5% for the week ending Nov. 5 while the FTSE Nareit Equity REITs index rose 1.8%.
REIT earnings, as measured by funds from operations, increased 30.9% from the previous year to a record high of over $18 billion in the first quarter of 2022, according to the Nareit T-Tracker®.
Year-to-date total returns for All Equity REITs stands at 31.9% and 35.2% for Equity REITs.
Broader markets also fell, with a decline of 2.2% on both the Russell 1000 and the S&P 500.
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The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index was down 1.3% for the week, a more modest decline than the 2.3% drop in the Russell 1000.
U.S. REITs raised $4.1 billion from secondary debt and equity offerings in the third quarter of 2023, though this preliminary total will be revised upward when ATM program usage data become available.
The lingering public-private real estate valuation divergence has been disruptive, but it continues to offer potential buying opportunities for investors.
REITs have reduced their reliance on borrowings, which lowered leverage ratios considerably over the past decade.
In 2024, U.S. listed REITs distributed approximately $66 billion in dividends, as reflected in Nareit’s REIT Industry Tracker.