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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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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Publicly traded REITs are providing transparency around key topics that are important to sustainability-focused investors, including documenting their approaches to risk management and performance reporting.
Veris, Extra Space, Ventas, and Simon are all strategically reinvesting across their portfolios.
Despite better performance, REITs remain underutilized by pensions.
REITs are gaining ground in their efforts to attract generalist investors.
REITs have also been building stronger relationships with fixed income investors.
Most private equity investment managers measure their performance using IRR, and illustrates how SLOCs and forward commitments can be used to manipulate IRR computations to make performance appear better than it really is.
REITs are making great strides in ESG by working to enhance ESG data and disclosure.
Total returns of stock exchange-listed U.S. REITs, led by Mortgage REITs, climbed in June, the second quarter and the first half of 2017, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts reported.
Cambridge Associates reports that private equity real estate funds have underperformed listed equity REITs by 3.91 percentage points per year over the past 25 years.
Health care REITs own a variety of types of health care-related real estate and collect rent from tenants.
Equity REITs up 15 percent through June 30.
Here’s the myth: an increase in interest rates is bad for real estate investors. Here’s the empirical fact: the historical evidence shows that real estate investors—at least those who invest through exchange-traded REITs—have usually done better during rising-rate environments than when interest rates were declining.
The 2022 Pensions & Investments annual survey of pension plans found that REIT assets in the largest 200 U.S. retirement plans grew 22% to $34.2 billion during the year.
U.S. stock exchange-listed Equity REITs drove operating and earnings growth higher in the fourth quarter, highlighted by record occupancy rates and rising Funds from Operations.
Retail REITs own and manage retail real estate and rent space in those properties to tenants. Properties include large regional malls, outlet centers, grocery-anchored shopping centers, and power centers that feature big box retailers.