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.
CEM Benchmarking’s 2024 study also reveals allocations, returns, volatility, and risk-adjusted performance of 12 asset classes over 25-year period.
Experts say it’s important for ETFs to embrace REITs, and vice versa.
REITworld will take place Dec. 8-11 in Dallas, TX. This event provides opportunities for individual meetings between REITs, investors, and analysts.
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.
Gaming REITs are in the early stages of what is expected to be a lengthy period of heightened investor interest.
Real estate pioneer Sam Zell cuts to the chase on the evolution of REITs, Trump, activist investors, international opportunities, and more.
Europe’s real estate investment climate looks more hospitable today than it did a year ago.
Nareit shares activities its members are engaged in to celebrate Black History Month this February.
New research from Wilshire Funds Management illustrates the benefits of REIT dividends for income oriented investment portfolios.
Citi’s Michael Bilerman recently spoke with REIT magazine on issues ranging from real estate cap rates and valuations, to the importance of asking difficult questions.
Nareit’s Fifth REIT Industry ESG Report Offers Overview of REITs’ Environmental, Social, and Governance Practices
Gerald Quattlebaum, senior vice president of acquisitions, spoke to REIT magazine about Flagship REIT’s UPREIT structure and the benefits it confers for medical office investing.
Simon Stevenson is professor of real estate finance at the Henley Business School, University of Reading.
As the visibility of the industry increases in the wake of Equity REITs moving into the new GICS Real Estate Sector, that aspect of REIT-based real estate investment will take on even greater importance.
With an established track record in ESG matters, REITs are well-placed to continue to build on their existing achievements, as well as respond to shifting areas of focus within the parameters of ESG.
An increase in interest rates might be cause for concern if it were predicted to come with no accompanying increase in net operating income—but it’s those changes in net operating income, not the interest rates themselves, that should attract the closest attention of investors in any equity asset such as real estate.
Cornerstone Realty’s Jay Olander says new fund will invest in undervalued companies.
REITs are keeping a close eye on capital costs, potential credit risk, slowing economic growth.
REITs provide diversification to investment portfolios because an investment in REITs is an investment in commercial real estate – a different asset class from other stocks and bonds. While returns of other stocks generally follow the business cycle, REIT returns follow the real estate market cycle.