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.
Each year Nareit collects tax reporting data for each Nareit member. View this year's data or explore the archive.
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.
REITweek is the largest REIT-focused event, connecting institutional investors with REIT management teams through company presentations, one-on-one meetings, and curated networking.
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.
"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."
REITWEEK 2015 panelists see conditions in capital markets as favorable.
President Ella Shaw Neyland sees strong job growth, positive demographic trends in apartment market.
New REIT CEOs share their perspectives on leadership and their jobs.
Companies increasingly give executive leaders the opportunity to gain board experience, alongside their day job.
Sponsoring and promoting key research along these lines is one more way Nareit shows how REITs are all about real estate working for you.
REIT efforts to support LGBTQ+ employees are getting national recognition.
One of the most important investment metrics is the term structure of correlations between any two assets. Correlation measures the degree to which the returns for a pair of assets move together.
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).
The REIT market generally overreacts initially to news that affects the timing and possible aggressiveness of Fed tightening, as well as to increases in long-term interest rates, but tends to recover over time.
Europe’s real estate investment climate looks more hospitable today than it did a year ago.
NAREIT’s Brad Case says a down month is normal for REITs during bull market.
Michael Bilerman, the recipient of Nareit’s 2020 Industry Achievement Award, has a career in real estate that spans more than two decades.