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.
CEM Benchmarking’s 2024 study also reveals allocations, returns, volatility, and risk-adjusted performance of 12 asset classes over 25-year period.
Experts say it’s important for ETFs to embrace REITs, and vice versa.
REITworld will take place Dec. 8-11 in Dallas, TX. This event provides opportunities for individual meetings between REITs, investors, and analysts.
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.
Historical data show that, on average, real estate has enjoyed solid total returns across different interest rate regimes with REITs consistently outperforming their private market counterparts.
Active managers of global real estate funds make strategic use of both geography and property sectors in investing over time.
Both volatilities and correlations have come down and are now firmly within their long-term normal ranges. Estimated REIT volatilities were above 21.9% only from January 21st through February 19th, and was most recently estimated at 11.8% using data through April 15th.
Do we need to worry that equity REITs are carrying too much debt?
GRESB, the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, has released its 2022 data on environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and good governance for REITs.
The stock market got a bit of relief last week as forceful policy measures prompted a three-day rally, trimming some of the recent losses.
Fourth quarter REIT performance, the outlook for REITs, and the global REIT industry took center stage during the Jan.14 “FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Indexes in Review and What’s Next” webinar.
U.S. REITs raised $2.5 billion from secondary debt and equity offerings in the fourth quarter of 2022, down from $8.6 billion raised in Q3.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index fell 3.6% in October, underperforming the broader stock market as the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market and Russell 1000 declined 0.7%.
Listed equity REITs have generally outperformed small-cap value stocks, posting slightly higher returns but substantially lower volatility and substantially better diversification benefits.
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.”
Rising interest rates worry real estate investors. Their fears are rooted in the view that interest rate increases will result in rising cap rates and, all else being equal, declining property values.
The economic forces that affect the demand for domestic U.S. commercial real estate differ from those affecting global corporations, and stock returns reflect these differences.
The recovery in commercial real estate markets is proceeding unevenly across the various property types through the second quarter of 2021
The yield spread to Treasuries 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.
Current REIT fundamentals and equity market conditions suggest that investing in REITs will likely continue to have such benefits in the period ahead.