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.
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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
The REIT industry's premier annual conference, bringing together leaders for networking, one-on-one meetings, and insights shaping the year ahead.
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.
Recent data from CoStar showcase the supply and demand differences across property types.
RBC Capital Markets’ John Perkins says REITs have access to plenty of liquidity.
More than 800 industry professionals gathered to learn about the latest developments impacting the real estate sector.
CEO Paul Pittman says “dishonest, market-manipulative behavior must be policed.”
Nareit Urges that TALF be expanded to include more investment grade commercial real estate debt instruments.
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 FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs index closed down 8.2% for the week ended May 15th, the first weekly decline for the month of May.
REIT industry has been busy working to better understand details and develop strategies for compliance.
An occupancy rate highlights property market fundamentals; it is a measure of the interaction of supply and demand. In the first quarter of 2026, Nareit’s REIT Industry Tracker broadened its coverage of occupancy rates from four to 10 property sectors.
European real estate, and the unique value it offers for global investors, was the focus of a Nareit REITweek 2025 panel.
Nareit's T-Tracker for the fourth quarter of 2021 also shows net acquisitions have hit record highs, FFO recovery in 2021 was divergent across sectors, and the industrial center realized impressive gains in Q4.
PwC’s Andrew Alperstein also sees need for public-private partnership on affordable housing.
At the end of 2020, U.S. public REITs owned an estimated 502,937 properties and 15.1 million acres of timberland across the U.S.
Space market fundamentals can differ markedly across property types.
Mortgage REITs (mREITs) provide financing for income-producing real estate by purchasing or originating mortgages and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and earning income from the interest on these investments.