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.
Nareit’s 2026 outlook addresses the topics that have been on the minds of real estate investors, including valuation divergences, compelling opportunities, and global strategies.
REITwise will take place March 24-26 in Hollywood, FL. This event is the leading educational conference for REITs, covering technical, regulatory, and operational updates.
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.
Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. has offered individual investors access to high quality, income-generating real estate in sectors and markets with opportunities for growth.
Mortgage REIT returns outperformed Equity REITs and the broader equity market in the first quarter of 2017.
Brad Thomas, author of The Intelligent REIT Investor Guide, spent more than 20 years as a real estate investor before becoming a REIT analyst and writer.
Analysts say transaction activity volume has slowed, but the nature of the activity is highly strategic and accretive.
"We find that the use of unsecured debt by REIT managers is associated with lower leverage and higher remaining debt capacity. This improves financial flexibility and supports firm value."
Investor relations teams look for ways to harness the power of AI tools to better communicate and engage with their investor base.
Each month, Nareit highlights recent executive career moves, board changes, and other notable individual achievements within the REIT and publicly listed real estate market.
REITalent Spotlight: Q&A with JBG SMITH Creative Manager Alyssa Cable
Sponsoring and promoting key research along these lines is one more way Nareit shows how REITs are all about real estate working for you.
Nareit’s Nicole Funari says homeowners often fail to see benefits of owning REITs.
Share repurchases.
While the industry enjoyed a solid start to 2025, travel patterns have slowed in recent months, analysts say.
Andrew Richard is a managing director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division.
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.
With funding liabilities on the rise, pension funds are under increased pressure to maximize returns and generate steady income.