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.
REITs using cost of capital advantage.
REITs feature heavily in the fund, with Prologis holding the highest weighting.
Total returns from a passively managed investment in the broad listed U.S. equity REIT market averaged 11.46% per year over the 20 years ending April 2015, substantially better than the broad stock market at just 9.50% per year.
NAREIT’s Brad Case sees growing awareness of private market misvaluations.
The U.S. commercial real estate market is amid an uncoupling. Property operational performance has generally been strong for both public and private real estate, but valuation metrics and total returns have diverged.
REITs have shown remarkable resilience in the aftermath of the financial crisis and investors have taken notice.
What’s driving the internationalization of Canadian REITs?
Our roundtable of real estate fund managers assess market fundamentals and growth opportunities around the world.
The diversification benefits of exchange-traded Equity REITs relative to the non-REIT parts of the stock market have persisted throughout a long period encompassing an almost unfathomly severe downturn—yet they have almost never been stronger than they were as 2016 came to a close.
Apartment, hotel REITs among strongest performers in first half of 2014.
Institutional investors are increasingly looking towards niche or specialized property sectors to complement their real estate portfolios, according to panelists during the ‘Investors Activities Update’ session at Nareit’s REITworld: 2021 Annual Conference.
Ventas defied the odds to become a juggernaut in health care real estate and one of the largest REITs in the U.S.
Construction in general, and residential construction in particular, has slowed considerably due to tariffs on building materials and labor shortages and stoppages.
The NCREIF Open End Diversified Core Equity index (ODCE) is a commonly used benchmark for investors in private real estate.
Investment real estate values grew by +0.44% percent during February 2016 according to the FTSE NAREIT PureProperty® Index Series, which provides the earliest measurement of changes in the market values of properties held by REITs for investment purposes.