REITs invest in the majority of real estate property types, including offices, apartment buildings, warehouses, retail centers, medical facilities, data centers, cell towers, infrastructure and hotels.
The report and its 30-plus case studies feature REIT leadership and ESG innovation from a variety of sectors and serves as a tool to assess the scale and impact of the REIT industry’s ESG commitments and initiatives.
With strong operational performance and balance sheets, REITs are well-positioned to navigate economic and market uncertainty in 2023.
Hudson Pacific and Macerich have transformed a former West Los Angeles shopping mall into a tech office campus.
Nareit’s REITwise: 2023 Law, Accounting and Finance Conference offers a comprehensive educational program for legal, financial, tax and accounting operations within REITs and publicly traded real estate companies.
For 60 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.
REITs have helped shape communities and the real estate investment landscape for the past six decades.
REITs have reduced their reliance on borrowings, which lowered leverage ratios considerably over the past decade.
Nareit Industry Partners are industry stakeholders that provide service and support to REITs and listed real estate companies. In turn, they are afforded the opportunity to interact with REIT management teams and Nareit’s leadership throughout the year.
This research note estimates the number of American households and Americans living in them that own REIT stocks directly or indirectly through mutual funds, ETFs or target date funds.
Nareit estimates 86.6 American adults, or 44% of American households, own REIT stocks directly or indirectly through mutual funds, ETFs or target date funds.
Debt financing through mortgages is the most common way people and businesses buy their homes and commercial properties. Mortgage REITs (mREITs) allow investors to help finance mortgages and benefit from the interest paid.
Individuals can invest in REITs in a variety of different ways, including purchasing shares of publicly traded REIT stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. REITs also play a growing role in defined benefit and defined contribution investment plans.
The estimated total dollar value of commercial real estate was $20.7 trillion as of 2021:Q2.
Rankings weigh ESG performance data and a public survey of corporate social responsibility perceptions.
To coincide with and in recognition of Women’s History Month, Nareit is speaking with female executives who have an essential role in making the REIT landscape more diverse and successful.
When assessing the outlook for REITs and commercial real estate in 2022 and beyond, it is helpful to distinguish between impermanent or cyclical effects and the longer-term structural changes that result from changes in behavior.
The Nareit universe of REIT indexes is growing and evolving to match an expanding industry and increased demand for data.