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.
British Property Federation hosts webinar featuring REESA members.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May) is a time to recognize the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the culture and history of the United States.
Greg Steele also sees investors taking selective approach toward IPOs.
Teams from 32 universities competed to produce highest returns from investment portfolios.
Nareit, together with Project Destined, connected REITs with diverse intern candidates from 350 colleges and universities.
Telecommunications REITs are a specialized segment of the broader REIT market focused on owning, managing, and leasing real estate critical to telecommunications and data transmission.
Telecommunications REITs own digital real estate in the form of cell towers and fiber conduits and lease these properties to the world’s communication providers.
U.S. REITs raised $5.2 billion from debt and equity offerings in the fourth quarter of 2023; note that this total is preliminary and will be revised upward when ATM program usage data become available.
Pension, endowment, and foundation funds control over $12 trillion in total assets, with approximately $900 billion invested in real estate.
Members of NAREIT’s Investor Outreach team discuss variety of REIT-related topics, including valuations, industry fundamentals and conditions in the capital markets.
REITs have outperformed private real estate property and fund indexes through the fourth quarter of 2021 and have an annual increase of 41.3% in 2021 compared to 22.2% for private real estate.
Jeffrey Horowitz is global head of real estate, gaming & lodging investment banking for BofA Securities.
The hospitality REIT has upgraded its portfolio and focused on acquisitions with a sustainability focus.
Ventas has set more aggressive water efficiency targets, among other sustainability goals.
While publicly traded equity REIT performance has recently been exhibiting an inverse relationship with U.S. 10-year Treasury yield movements, this has not always been the case.
Nareit’s Ed Pierzak says REIT balance sheets benefitting from low leverage, access to unsecured debt.