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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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.
Brad Thomas says every REIT sector now has a proptech component.
Governance specialist Jim Hanks of Venable says proxy access has become a major issue.
“Even the liquid markets became illiquid,” one mREIT CEO says.
Heitman's Tim Pire optimistic about European market.
The CRREM Foundation has announced that it will no longer use the term “Stranding Year” to describe the year in which a building’s current or projected carbon or energy intensity exceeds the respective CRREM pathway threshold.
Infrastructure, data center REITs among top performers.
AEW Capital Management’s Gina Szymanski expects niche REIT segments to be “incredibly resilient.”
King & Spaulding’s Keith Townsend says REITs need to be aware they are “vulnerable.”
During the current lingering public-private real estate valuation dislocation, REIT implied cap rates have reacted to movements in the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield in meaningful ways.
Tyler Morse of MCR says foreign looking at hotels as safe havens.
Although the economic, financial, and property markets have experienced considerable changes over the last few years, REIT operational performance has maintained resilience.
Self-storage segment leads REIT market with 15.1 percent return.
Mark Manheimer highlights team development, portfolio diversity, and handling tenant challenges.
REITs are real estate with attractive performance attributes. In research sponsored by Nareit, CEM Benchmarking took a comprehensive look at investment allocations and realized investment performance across 12 asset classes over a 25-year period (1998–2022) using a dataset covering more than 200 U.S public- and private-sector pensions with $4.1 trillion in combined assets under management (AUM).