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.
Partnerships are occurring across a range of REIT property sectors.
REITweek Investor Conference, taking place June 2-5 in New York, is the REIT industry’s largest annual gathering of executives, investors, and industry partners.
For 60 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.
The fifth edition of the REIT Industry ESG Report© includes industry trends, REIT ESG reporting data and analysis, as well as useful information on the publicly traded U.S. REIT industry’s primary sustainability, social responsibility, and governance practices. The 2023 report and its 20 REIT case studies serve as a practical tool for stakeholders to assess the scale of the industry’s sustainability commitments and initiatives.
There are hundreds of U.S. real estate mutual funds with many of them having sizable allocations to stock exchange listed Equity and Mortgage REITs. REIT.com maintains a list of U.S. funds tracked by Lipper.
New research from Wilshire Funds Management has shown how adding a range of high income-generating assets, including REITs, to model retirement portfolios would have produced a nearly 40 percent gain in income returns while maintaining nearly the same total returns and risk profiles as retirement portfolios with more traditional investment allocations.
New NAREIT-sponsored research from Wilshire Funds Management shows that adding a range of high income-producing assets, including REITs, to a traditional retirement-stage portfolio would have boosted income returns by nearly 40 percent.
Institutional investors are increasingly using REITs as part of their portfolio completion strategies. Nareit’s series of institutional investor case studies shows how investors are using REITs to achieve sector diversification, geographic diversification, and to capitalize on tactical opportunities.
Governance refers to an organization’s processes, policies, practices, and impact with regard to its formalized governing infrastructure, transparency, roles and responsibilities, and accountability.
This report of the REIT industry’s environmental, social responsibility, and governance (ESG) performance details the state of sustainability efforts in the publicly traded U.S. REIT industry in 2022. The report and its 30-plus case studies feature REIT leadership and ESG innovation from a variety of sectors and serves as a practical tool for stakeholders to assess the scale and impact of the REIT industry’s ESG commitments and initiatives.
This third annual report of the REIT industry’s environmental, social responsibility, and governance (ESG) performance details the state of sustainability efforts in the publicly traded U.S. REIT industry in 2021. The report and its case studies feature REIT leadership and ESG innovation from a variety of sectors and serves as a practical tool for stakeholders to assess the scale and impact of the REIT industry’s ESG commitments and initiatives.
Pension, endowment, and foundation funds control over $12 trillion in total assets, with approximately $900 billion invested in real estate.
As pension, endowment, foundation, and sovereign fund investors evaluate the benefits that exposure to commercial real estate bring to investment portfolios, they should know that stock exchange-listed REITs and real estate securities offer meaningful advantages as a way of obtaining that exposure.