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.
13 Nareit members recognized for commitment to transparency in gender data reporting.
Rising interest rates and expectations of future changes in monetary policy have at times impacted the share prices of equity REITs. However, increases in interest rates often are driven by economic growth that may support the growth of REIT earnings and dividends in the future. Research shows that REITs returns have generally been positive and have often outperformed the S&P 500 in periods of rising interest rates.
Residential REITs own more than 1.3 million apartment units and more than 200,000 single family rental houses, as well as manufactured housing, RV parks, and marinas.
At the beginning of 2018 REITs were undervalued and poised for outperformance. At the end of the year both statements were still true—but less so, because the outperformance has begun.
Nareit tracks quarterly investment holdings for the 26 largest actively managed real estate investment funds focusing on REIT investment for insights into expert investor sentiment.
Health care REITs own a variety of types of health care-related real estate and collect rent from tenants.
REIT dividends have outpaced inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index in all but two of the last twenty years.
For decades, defined benefit (DB) pension plans have been using real estate successfully within their investment portfolios.
Nareit promotes sustainability and social responsibility-related topics by highlighting leading industry practices in its original editorial content, as well as at conferences and webinars. Nareit digital media platforms deliver perspectives from industry experts and member REITs on some of the real estate industry's most pressing issues.
Index helps bring transparency to public company gender-related practices and policies.