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.
The REIT industry's premier annual conference, bringing together leaders for networking, one-on-one meetings, and insights shaping the year ahead.
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.
REITs still attracting investors searching for yield.
Effective investor messaging constinues to grow in importance as the success of the REIT sector attracts new investors.
A revolution is coming in real estate investment, according to MIT professor David Geltner.
I think it’s very difficult to make any thoughtful (let alone empirically based) case for predicting that the current real estate market cycle is nearing its end. The evidence simply isn’t there.
Sponsoring and promoting key research along these lines is one more way Nareit shows how REITs are all about real estate working for you.
In the third quarter of 2024, material progress had been made in closing the gap between REIT implied and private appraisal cap rates, but then markets changed.
QTS CEO Chad Williams says board members encouraged the company to develop a written ESG report, which took about a year to compile, to quantify what the company was doing and to be more intentional about its focus.
REIT balance sheets were strong heading into the pandemic with easy access to cash and lines of credit, and operating performance proved to be resilient.
Analysts point to expected slowdown in supply as a possible silver lining as demand challenges remain.
Digital Realty is expanding globally as demand for data accelerates.
REIT convert American Tower Corp. is putting people in touch.
Institutional Real Estate, Inc. (IREI), in collaboration with Nareit, hosted a July 16 webinar addressing the latest trends in the real estate investment landscape.
"We find that the use of unsecured debt by REIT managers is associated with lower leverage and higher remaining debt capacity. This improves financial flexibility and supports firm value."
Publicly traded REITs are continuing to adopt, implement, and report on environmental, social, and governance practices and integrate them across their businesses.
Infrastructure, data center REITs some of the strongest performers.