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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Partnerships are occurring across a range of REIT property sectors.
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The lingering public-private real estate valuation divergence has been disruptive, but it continues to offer potential buying opportunities for investors.
The yield spread to Baa corporates as of the end of 2016 was in the bullish part of its historic range—and if a wide variety of estimates of the past relationship between spreads and forward-looking returns continues to hold, that currently bullish spread would suggest relatively bullish future total returns for investors in exchange-traded Equity REITs.
During the current lingering public-private real estate valuation dislocation, REIT implied cap rates have reacted to movements in the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield in meaningful ways.
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.
Net operating income (NOI) of listed REITs rose nearly 50 percent over the past four years. The steady increases in same-store NOI at a pace above the inflation rate should continue to drive earnings, and valuations, upward in the future.
Cohen & Steers’ Jon Cheigh says REITs should also maintain entrepreneurial and visionary attributes.
The current bull market for exchange-listed equity REITs has rewarded investors with returns averaging more than 21% per year over the past 8½ years—but by the standards of previous real estate market cycles this one has not even hit its stride yet.
Investors’ assessment of REITs sustainability reporting and advice for refining it took center stage during Nareit’s webinar “Investor Perspectives on REIT Sustainability Reporting.
Apartment, hotel REITs among strongest performers in first half of 2014.
Top-performing real estate fund managers reflect on 2016 and offer insight into 2017.
After a tumultuous 2020, bankers look ahead to 2021 and see fundamentals that are generally favorable for REITs.
Looking out to the second half of 2020 and into 2021, Wieting says CPB sees value returning in certain real estate sectors and other asset classes that are deeply undervalued at the moment.
An experienced investor with her eyes on both the domestic and international real estate markets, Nora Creedon sees a lot of positive signs in the U.S. REIT market.
Jay Hartzell is professor and chair of the Department of Finance, and executive director of the Real Estate Finance and Investment Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
REIT transaction activity is expected to keep accelerating in the second half of 2021.