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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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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CEM Benchmarking Study Illustrates the Powerful Role REITs Can Play in DB Plans; Features Data from the Pandemic for First Time.
New data from the first quarter of 2025 demonstrate that REITs continue to maintain well-structured debt—90.9% of listed REITs’ total debt was at a fixed rate while 79.4% of their total debt was unsecured, according to Nareit’s quarterly REIT Industry Tracker released today.
Join Nareit for an ESG Exchange webinar to find out what it’s like to work in an ESG role for a REIT; gain insights into green economy hiring trends and how you might find your next role; and learn more about the growing focus on ESG in the REIT and publicly traded real estate industry.
Nareit’s Calvin Schnure also sees easing in REIT tenants’ cash flow concerns.
Investors seeking income found it in the Specialty REITs sector’s 6.22 percent dividend yield – nearly double the dividend yield of the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs Index on August 31.
Director of Sustainability Ben Myers says ESG leadership takes both humility and confidence.
Standards reflects NAREIT recommendations.
NAREIT's Brad Case says U.S. REIT income remained high despite market challenges.
Self-storage REIT focuses on creating clear value for all its stakeholders.
Hersha’s Matthew Lobach expects increase in real-time data monitoring of building systems.
Through the support of this year’s sponsors, Nareit was able to gather more than 3,700 industry stakeholders virtually.
Austin, Texas, welcomed sustainability thought leaders from the United States, Mexico and Australia for NAREIT’s 7th Annual Leader in the Light Working Forum, which took place on Jan. 17-18.
New research from Wilshire Funds Management, sponsored by NAREIT and based on portfolio optimizations using 40 years of investment return data through 2015, showed that adding a range of high income-generating assets (including REITs) to a traditional retirement-stage portfolio could boost income returns by nearly 40 percent.
NAREIT is disappointed with the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s final Federal Home Loan Bank membership rule excluding captive insurers from membership. We note that the FHFA acknowledged a well-known fact, that “mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) play an important role in the residential mortgage market.”
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.