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.
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.
March 16, 2021 - Nareit Senior Economist Calvin Schnure joined a virtual summit featuring a panel of economists specializing in real estate moderated by Akiko Matsuda, a reporter with The Real Deal.
REITs provide diversification to investment portfolios because an investment in REITs is an investment in commercial real estate – a different asset class from other stocks and bonds. While returns of other stocks generally follow the business cycle, REIT returns follow the real estate market cycle.
CEO DJ Busch says distinguishing factor was important in advance of the REIT’s 2021 IPO.
Investment real estate values increased by +0.57 percent during May 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. The South region saw the strongest appreciation at +2.02 percent.
Malcolm Montgomery of Shearman & Sterling on the impact of potential changes to public policy on REITs and sectors poised to outperform in 2017.
Harvey says REITs have brought governance to the industry, access to capital and liquidity, and exposure to a range of business types.
A recent Nareit commentary highlighted the stubbornly slow-to-close and wide public-private real estate cap rate spread.
Data center REIT to replace Time Warner Cable in index.
CEO Chris Benjamin says the Hawaiian economy is “coming back strong.”
Andrew Weakland, director of systems development, says data science is a core value across teams.
FFO more than 40% higher in Q3 2021 than Q3 2020
Kimco’s Conor Flynn says shopping center REIT focusing on major metro markets.
The high level of jobless claims week after week raised fears that new rounds of layoffs may be spreading from the sectors initially hit by the crisis to the rest of the economy, and perhaps warning of greater damage from the shutdowns.
Essex Property Trust CEO discusses transactions market.
GRESB, the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, has released its 2024 data on environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and good governance for real estate.