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.
Nareit's John Worth along with Brandon Benjamin of Brookfield Asset Management will discuss the performance for the second quarter of 2025 and upcoming trends.
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.
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.
Mutual funds and ETFs are a common way for investors to access the real estate asset class.
In 2016, S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI elevated stock-exchange listed real estate companies (including REITs) from under the Financials Sector to a new 11th headline Real Estate Sector under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).