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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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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Leading real estate fund managers reflect on gains made in 2019 and assess the outlook for REITs and listed real estate in 2020.
Publicly traded REITs are continuing to adopt, implement, and report on environmental, social, and governance practices and integrate them across their businesses.
NAREIT staff reviewed impact of FIRPTA reforms and creation of new GICS real estate sector.
Housing finance market reform impact.
One of the dominant themes among institutional real estate investors of the past few years has been the shift toward “alternative” property types.
REIT diversification benefits come not merely from their low correlations to other assets but also from their historically strong risk-adjusted returns.
It should come as no surprise that the top-performing sector of the REIT market varies through time, suggesting that most investors will want to maintain exposure to every part of the real estate asset class.
New research indicates that stock exchange-listed equity REITs have a stabilizing influence on real estate.
Nareit’s REITworks: 2023 Conference convened hundreds of REIT leaders and industry professionals in Las Vegas June 28–29.
I think it’s very difficult to make any thoughtful (let alone empirically based) case for predicting that the current real estate market cycle is nearing its end. The evidence simply isn’t there.
Leading real estate fund managers reflect on the challenges and opportunities ahead for 2019.
REITs see reinvestment as essential, flexible element of broader strategy to position assets in strongest possible way.
REITs across nine sectors outline their priorities for the coming year.
It is often said that “correlations spike to one during a crisis,” but REIT-stock correlations have actually been lower during the worst stock market downturns in history, reinforcing the case for REITs as a portfolio diversifier even during crises.