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.
For the remainder of 2025 and into 2026, REITs are well-equipped to handle market volatility while capitalizing on growth opportunities in CRE transactions.
REITworld will take place Dec. 8-11 in Dallas, TX. This event provides opportunities for individual meetings between REITs, investors, and analysts.
For 60 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.
At the start of the pandemic, REIT magazine took a step that many in the publishing industry were also taking—shifting to a digital-only format.
People making news in the REIT and publicly traded real estate industry.
Over the two market days following the Brexit vote U.S. stock market volatility more than doubled, from 9.9% (below its inter-quartile range) to 22.0% (above its IQR)—but U.S. REIT market volatility nudged up by barely one-seventh, from 9.6% to 10.9%.
Lodging/resorts REITs own nearly 1,900 properties in the United States, facilitating the expansion of commerce and making leisure travel possible.
The REITs’ stock market path through the recovery to date can be usefully described as three distinct periods.
Retail sales in May were 10.9% above recent trends, despite declining slightly from April. Brick & mortar sales are healthy even as e-commerce grows.
In today’s investment marketplace, competition for capital is global in scope.
Retail REITs own and manage retail real estate and rent space in those properties to tenants.
Many analysts have noted that increasing construction and high prices on commercial properties often presage a downturn in the sector, and have asked whether this cycle may be approaching the 9th inning. NAREIT research economists have examined data from several sources to shed further light on the risks that the sector may be approaching a correction.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index declined 7.0% in September as the 10-year Treasury yield continued to climb, ending the month at 4.6%, while the All Equity REITs dividend yield ended the month at 4.4%.
At the beginning of 2018 REITs were undervalued and poised for outperformance. At the end of the year both statements were still true—but less so, because the outperformance has begun.
Investment real estate values increased by +4.1% during July 2016 according to the FTSE NAREIT PureProperty® Index Series, which provides the earliest measurement of changes in the market values of properties held for investment purposes.
REITs’ access to capital demonstrates investor confidence in their ability to operate despite difficult economic and financial market conditions.
The apartment market has been riding a wave of robust demand and rapidly rising rents for the past several years, pushing multifamily into the leading ranks of commercial real estate. Recently, however, there have been some signs of softening.
Each month, Nareit highlights recent executive career moves, board changes, and other notable individual achievements within the REIT and publicly listed real estate market.
Demand continues to exceed supply in real estate markets, leading to lower vacancies, rising rents and accelerating NOI. There are few signs of any meaningful slowdown ahead.