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.
The sharp decline in REIT earnings reflects the record contraction in GDP in the second quarter. Economic activity hit bottom in April, however, and began rebounding over the past four months.
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.
Here’s a comment that was much more common when I started this job in 2006 than it is today: exchange-traded equity REITs, people used to say, are essentially “just small-cap value stocks,” implying that they didn’t offer any significant diversification benefit that you couldn’t get simply by holding a mutual fund or ETF focused on the small-cap value segment of the stock market.
REITs and publicly-listed real estate around the world were hit hard by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but have generally rebounded strongly.
For decades, defined benefit (DB) pension plans have been using real estate successfully within their investment portfolios.
Nareit’s Brad Case says 2017 marked by large disparities in market performance.
A recent Nareit webinar, “How REITs Attract Sustainable Capital for Long-Term Growth,” brought together industry leaders to discuss how REITs are leveraging data, transparency, and innovation to advance sustainability and attract investment.
Nareit’s REITworld: 2024 Annual Conference convened 1,300 REIT leaders and industry professionals Nov. 18–21 in Las Vegas.
With the commercial real estate (CRE) market characterized by softening fundamentals, a lingering public-private real estate valuation problem, and higher interest rates, property transaction activities have remained stifled.
REITs are expected to be effective in deploying capital, especially in second half.
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.”
Pension, endowment, and foundation funds control over $12 trillion in total assets, with approximately $900 billion invested in real estate.
Bi-monthly thoughts from NAREIT's Chairman.
Investors’ assessment of REITs sustainability reporting and advice for refining it took center stage during Nareit’s webinar “Investor Perspectives on REIT Sustainability Reporting.