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.
Experts are forecasting a reinvigoration of the office market due to a boost in leasing from AI-related companies.
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.
REITs and commercial real estate in the United States will face a number of important questions in 2017. The economic expansion and the commercial real estate cycle are both more than a half-decade old; what are the risks of a downturn? The Federal Reserve has resumed raising its target for short-term interest rates; what impact will higher rates have on financing costs, on the demand for commercial real estate and on REIT share prices? The Presidential Election surprised most observers; what impact might the incoming Trump Administration have on the economy and commercial real estate?
Across the globe, 42 countries and regions have adopted the U.S.-based REIT approach to real estate investment, offering all investors access to portfolios of income producing real estate. Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds offer the easiest and most efficient way for investors to add global listed real estate allocations to portfolios.
The underlying economic fundamentals for commercial real estate are gaining more momentum with a higher level of vaccine coverage, which is likely to boost REIT earnings growth over the remainder of this year.
Nareit provides rigorous analytic research—developed by Nareit's economists as well as sponsored research—that individually and collectively highlights and clarifies the competitive long-term market performance record and portfolio benefits of REITs and the role REITs should play in diversified investment portfolios.
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Nareit offers a variety of advertising opportunities to reach a targeted audience of REIT and publicly traded real estate C-suite executives, REIT leaders, analysts, and institutional investors, as well as everyday investors interested in commercial real estate.
Nareit supports and promotes the REIT industry’s adoption of sustainability principles by providing resources for industry stakeholders and disseminating information about oversight, management, tracking, and reporting.
Though REITs have not been immune to capital market uncertainty and mortgage market turmoil, they continue to have sound operations, solid balance sheets, and successful equity and unsecured debt issuances in the capital markets.
Commercial real estate and REITs are likely to begin to recover in 2021, with the pace of improvement driven by the availability and effectiveness of a vaccine.
Nareit and its members participate with industry stakeholders on various initiatives and programs that impact the broader commercial real estate community.
Nareit corporate members receive exclusive benefits, including access to advocacy, investors, regulatory engagement, thought leadership, industry-leading research, professional development, member-only events, and more.
A wide range of indicators from GDP, labor markets, housing markets and commercial real estate are consistent with continued economic growth and improving real estate markets and REIT earnings in 2020.