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.
Sherry Rexroad has more than 25 years of experience in the real estate investment business.
One of the enduring mysteries of reporting on investments is how many people seem to focus on price appreciation OR income, and how few people focus instead on total return
Proposal would align REIT funds with GICS.
REITs are making great strides in ESG by working to enhance ESG data and disclosure.
Stock exchange-listed Equity REITs significantly outperformed the rest of the equity market in March and the first quarter of 2016, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). The total return of the FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index was 9.99 percent in March and 5.86 percent in the first quarter, while the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs Index was up 10.17 percent in March and 5.84 percent in the first quarter.
Data from over 300 pension funds found listed equity REITs to be the top-performing asset class overall, with significantly lower fees than other real and alternative assets.
For nearly two decades, Merrie Frankel has been a familiar face around the REIT industry as a REIT analyst with Moody’s Investors Service. She decided in the fall that she was ready for a change.
Princeton University economics professor Burton Malkiel is the author of “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” an investment classic first published in 1973 that launched the movement toward passive index investing.
Real estate pioneer Sam Zell cuts to the chase on the evolution of REITs, Trump, activist investors, international opportunities, and more.
Simon Stevenson is professor of real estate finance at the Henley Business School, University of Reading.
Norges Bank Investment Management’s real estate investment strategy combines 50% REITs and 50% private real estate investments to enhance diversification, access new and emerging property sectors, and optimize cost management.
To coincide with and in recognition of Women’s History Month, Nareit is speaking with female executives who have an essential role in making the REIT landscape more diverse and successful.
REITs outperform private real estate by nearly 2.3% in defined benefit (DB) plans, according to a new study by CEM Benchmarking, Inc.
CEM has collaborated with Nareit for 10 years on pension fund performance, allocation research.