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Experts say it’s important to increase board diversity for the right reasons.

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.

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 Nareit universe of REIT indexes is growing and evolving to match an expanding industry and increased demand for data.

This third annual report of the REIT industry’s environmental, social responsibility, and governance (ESG) performance details the state of sustainability efforts in the publicly traded U.S. REIT industry in 2021. The report and its case studies feature REIT leadership and ESG innovation from a variety of sectors and serves as a practical tool for stakeholders to assess the scale and impact of the REIT industry’s ESG commitments and initiatives.

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.

Industrial REITs own and manage industrial facilities and rent space in those properties to tenants.

Heading into a period of slower growth, high inflation, and significantly higher interest rates, we see REITs as well positioned for strong relative performance and stability.

Acquisition activity in the second quarter was robust across most property sectors.

During this period of divergent public and private property valuations, the commercial real estate mortgage market has been marked by higher interest rates and stricter underwriting standards.

New data show that REITs continue to have well-structured debt; 76 percent of REITs’ total debt is unsecured, while 87 percent of listed REITs’ total debt is at a fixed rate, according to first quarter 2023 data from the Nareit Total REIT Industry Tracker Series (T-Tracker®) report released today.

Data center REITs see pipeline of new opportunities and long-term demand potential.

Multiple studies conducted by different research firms have come to similar conclusions, finding that the optimal portfolio allocation to REITs may be between 5% and 15%.

On a global basis, data centers, industrial, and self-storage have been the strongest performing sectors in 2023.

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