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.
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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.
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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.
A recent research note by Hodes Weill & Associates (HW) called REITs versus Private Real Estate Funds: Partners, Not Rivals addressed the merits of public and private real estate in an institutional investor’s portfolio.
Equity REITs up 15 percent through June 30.
ESG issues are a growing priority for investors, making it increasingly important for REITs to thoroughly disclose how they are performing.
Infrastructure, data center REITs among top performers.
Europe’s real estate investment climate looks more hospitable today than it did a year ago.
With inflation remaining at 40-year highs, interest rates escalating, and economic growth contracting, the U.S. economy is in a precarious state.
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.