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.
Each year Nareit collects tax reporting data for each Nareit member. View this year's data or explore the archive.
REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
The REIT industry's premier annual conference, bringing together leaders for networking, one-on-one meetings, and insights shaping the year ahead.
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 bedrock of any investor’s portfolio—no matter how small, no matter how large—is an allocation to the broad U.S. stock market. To go just the tiniest step further, most investors start with a mix of U.S. stocks and U.S. bonds. The question is what to add to that basic portfolio.
Cornerstone Realty’s Jay Olander says new fund will invest in undervalued companies.
Bi-monthly thoughts from NAREIT's Chairman.
The firm that led the way bringing REIT investing into the mainstream is getting more sophisticated.
Cyberthreats pose significant and escalating risks for all industries, including REITs and their customers.
Each month, Nareit highlights recent executive career moves, board changes, and other notable individual achievements within the REIT and publicly listed real estate market.
Simon Stevenson is professor of real estate finance at the Henley Business School, University of Reading.
Awards recognize outstanding contributions made to protecting the environment.
December 2018 was bitter for investors. Total returns in the broad REIT market were -7.73 percent—but that was good news compared with large-cap stocks (-9.03 percent according to the S&P 500), small-cap stocks (-11.88 percent for the Russell 2000) and especially small-cap value stocks (-12.09 percent).
University of Denver professor Glenn Mueller discusses effect of indexing on REITs.
2024 Leader in the Light Award recipients discuss industry-leading strategies being employed in their business.
The third annual report demonstrates that REITs continue to enhance practices and proactively integrate ESG efforts across all areas of business.
Nareit analysis of data from Preqin, a financial research firm that tracks investments in alternative assets, indicates that the use of REITs by pension plans has been increasing, particularly among the largest, most sophisticated plans.
Industrial REITs own and manage industrial facilities and rent space in those properties to tenants.
REIT magazine spoke with bankers to gauge their outlooks for the real estate market in the coming year.
Experts say it’s important for ETFs to embrace REITs, and vice versa.