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 say it’s important for ETFs to embrace REITs, and vice versa.
REITworld will take place Dec. 8-11 in Dallas, TX. This event provides opportunities for individual meetings between REITs, investors, and analysts.
For 65 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 is a high barrier to entry to invest directly in commercial property and most U.S. families do not invest in commercial property unless they have significant financial resources, according to data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF).
Retail REITs own and manage retail real estate and rent space in those properties to tenants. Properties include large regional malls, outlet centers, grocery-anchored shopping centers, and power centers that feature big box retailers.
Opportunity zone legislation has the potential to impact REITs in a number of direct and indirect ways.
Here’s the myth: an increase in interest rates is bad for real estate investors. Here’s the empirical fact: the historical evidence shows that real estate investors—at least those who invest through exchange-traded REITs—have usually done better during rising-rate environments than when interest rates were declining.
Total returns of stock exchange-listed U.S. REITs, led by Mortgage REITs, climbed in June, the second quarter and the first half of 2017, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts reported.
According to the 2023 Hodes Weill/Cornell Real Estate Allocations Monitor, institutions consider REITs to be a complement to private real estate in terms of filling allocation needs and addressing liquidity objectives.
Lodging/resorts REITs specialize in the ownership of hospitality properties, including hotels, resorts, and vacation rentals.