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.
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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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Individuals can invest in REITs in a variety of different ways, including purchasing shares of REIT stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. REITs also play a growing role in defined benefit and defined contribution investment plans.
Companies owning or financing real estate must meet a number of organizational, operational, distribution and compliance requirements to qualify as a real estate investment trust (REIT). These rules govern issues such as dividend distributions and the composition of a company's assets.
REITs—or real estate investment trusts—give you the opportunity to invest in the commercial buildings and infrastructure you use every day, without having to buy or manage property yourself.
The percentage of American households with REIT stocks has also nearly doubled from 23% to 44% through the last two decades.
Individuals can invest in REITs in a variety of different ways, including purchasing shares of publicly traded REIT stocks, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds. REITs also play a growing role in defined benefit and defined contribution investment plans.
NAREIT has successfully connected Members of Congress with REITs that own and operate properties within their local districts and states.
Across the globe, 42 countries and regions have adopted the U.S.-based REIT approach to real estate investment, offering all investors access to portfolios of income producing real estate. Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds offer the easiest and most efficient way for investors to add global listed real estate allocations to portfolios.
REIT dividends can be taxed at different rates because they can be allocated to ordinary income, capital gains and return of capital. The maximum capital gains tax rate of 20% (plus the 3.8% Medicare Surtax) applies generally to the sale of REIT stock.