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.
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Rising interest rates worry real estate investors. Their fears are rooted in the view that interest rate increases will result in rising cap rates and, all else being equal, declining property values.
REITs have delivered a long-term total return to investors that generally matches and often beats broad market aggregates.
There are 80 active .reit domains used by REITs all over the world today.
S&P Global said sustainability performance is “being tested in new ways.”
The yield spread to Treasuries as of the end of 2016 was in the bullish part of its historic range—and if a wide variety of estimates of the past relationship between spreads and forward-looking returns continues to hold, that currently bullish spread would suggest relatively bullish future total returns for investors in exchange-traded Equity REITs.
Nareit’s REITwise 2026: Education Conference convened more than 1,200 real estate executives and REIT industry professionals March 24-26 in Hollywood, Fla.
Opportunity zone legislation has the potential to impact REITs in a number of direct and indirect ways.
The current bull market for exchange-listed equity REITs has rewarded investors with returns averaging more than 21% per year over the past 8½ years—but by the standards of previous real estate market cycles this one has not even hit its stride yet.
A new sector for real estate sounds like a prescription for lower REIT volatility and better diversification from the broader market.
Nareit’s REITwise 2025: Law, Accounting & Finance Conference convened nearly 1,100 real estate executives and REIT industry professionals March 25-27 in San Antonio, Texas.
The correlation between REITs and the broad stock market has always been relatively low because REIT returns are driven by the real estate market cycle whereas returns for most other equities are driven by the much shorter business cycle.
Listed equity REITs are being used to complete investors’ private real estate portfolios.
Strong companies could leverage capital access to pursue growth opportunities in 2025.
Michael Hudgins has long advocated for the inclusion of REIT securities in well-balanced investment portfolios.
New research indicates that pension funds would have benefitted from increasing their allocations to stock exchange-listed Equity REITs.
The 2022 Pensions & Investments annual survey of pension plans found that REIT assets in the largest 200 U.S. retirement plans grew 22% to $34.2 billion during the year.