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.
Nareit’s 2026 outlook addresses the topics that have been on the minds of real estate investors, including valuation divergences, compelling opportunities, and global strategies.
REITwise will take place March 24-26 in Hollywood, FL. This event is the leading educational conference for REITs, covering technical, regulatory, and operational updates.
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.
Here’s the myth: an increase in interest rates is bad for real estate investors. Here’s the empirical fact: the historical evidence shows that real estate investors—at least those who invest through exchange-traded REITs—have usually done better during rising-rate environments than when interest rates were declining.
Pension funds are deploying more capital to REITs to diversify and balance their portfolios.
Listed equity REITs are being used to complete investors’ private real estate portfolios.
REITs have outperformed private real estate property and fund indexes through the fourth quarter of 2021 and have an annual increase of 41.3% in 2021 compared to 22.2% for private real estate.
Nareit’s 2019 Leader in the Light Awards winners are leading the way in ESG.
Farmland Partners is becoming a player in the agricultural real estate business.
As REITs respond to social and racial injustice, Nareit will track the efforts across the commercial real estate industry.
REITs work to attract larger allocations from retail investors.
For REIT sustainability managers, compliance reporting for a growing number of systems has come down to triage of sorts, with real-estate-specific platforms getting top priority.
Canada’s REIT industry celebrates a quarter century.
CEO Angela Kleiman also sees proptech playing key role in Essex’s success.
REITs have also been building stronger relationships with fixed income investors.
REITs see reinvestment as essential, flexible element of broader strategy to position assets in strongest possible way.
Both volatilities and correlations have come down and are now firmly within their long-term normal ranges. Estimated REIT volatilities were above 21.9% only from January 21st through February 19th, and was most recently estimated at 11.8% using data through April 15th.
Big increases in spending mean increased opportunities for industrial and retail landlords.
Timber REIT sector continues to grow and evolve.