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.
REITweek Investor Conference, taking place June 2-5 in New York, is the REIT industry’s largest annual gathering of executives, investors, and industry partners.
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.
Pension, endowment, and foundation funds control over $12 trillion in total assets, with approximately $900 billion invested in real estate.
Pension funds are deploying more capital to REITs to diversify and balance their portfolios.
The Nareit universe of REIT indexes is growing and evolving to match an expanding industry and increased demand for data.
In an environment in which corporate earnings have been lagging in many industries, the stock exchange-listed U.S. Equity REIT industry continues to deliver solid increases in operating performance fueled by strong occupancies and rent growth.
REITs are gaining ground in their efforts to attract generalist investors.
The total return of the U.S. Equity REIT market fell short of the S&P 500’s gain in 2016, while Mortgage REITs nearly doubled the total return of the broader equity market.
REITs work to attract larger allocations from retail investors.
REITs have helped shape communities and the real estate investment landscape for the past six decades.
Institutional investors reevaluating role of REITs in retirement portfolios.
Canada’s REIT industry celebrates a quarter century.
For decades, defined benefit (DB) pension plans have been using real estate successfully within their investment portfolios.
Rankings weigh ESG performance data and a public survey of corporate social responsibility perceptions.
Value-oriented and momentum-oriented investors look to take advantage of different opportunities: value investors look for stocks selling well below normal, while momentum investors look for stocks that have done well recently. Both opportunities can be found today among sectors of the REIT market.
ESG issues are a growing priority for investors, making it increasingly important for REITs to thoroughly disclose how they are performing.
REITs have provided that diversification benefit because their underlying returns are driven by the real estate market cycle, which is very different from the business cycle that drives the returns of most other companies in the stock market.
Veris, Extra Space, Ventas, and Simon are all strategically reinvesting across their portfolios.