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.
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.
The three-day virtual conference focused on legal, financial, tax, and accounting issues for REITs.
The pandemic's impact on demand will be short-term, but there may also be longer-term structural changes
During the last 30 years, REIT market capitalization has seen steady growth, with only a small dip during the global financial crisis.
U.S. REIT returns continued to outpace returns of the broader equity market in the first three quarters of 2016, according to the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). The FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index, the broadest benchmark of the U.S. REIT industry containing both Equity and Mortgage REITs, delivered a 12.57 percent total return in the first nine months of 2016. The FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs Index, delivered a total return of 12.31 percent in the same period, and the FTSE NAREIT Mortgage REITs Index delivered a total return of 20.16 percent. In comparison, the S&P 500’s total return was 7.84 percent.
Nareit corporate members receive exclusive benefits, including access to advocacy, investors, regulatory engagement, thought leadership, industry-leading research, professional development, member-only events, and more.
Nareit’s Compensation Survey Report features up-to-date information on compensation and benefits for more than 240 positions commonly found at REITs and REOCs.
Tariff actions have introduced uncertainty into U.S. financial and economic markets.
Cindy Scharringhausen, Camden’s SVP of HR, sat down with Nareit to discuss the REIT’s 2019 Diversity & Inclusion Recognition Corporate Award bronze win.
All property sectors of the REIT universe declined last week as a surge in new cases of COVID-19 in many states raised concerns that the economic reopening may be delayed.
Equity REITs up 15 percent through June 30.
Nareit represents REITs and publicly traded real estate companies in matters of legislation and public policy. Additionally, Nareit informs the investment community about the REIT approach to real estate investment. Efforts in these areas extend to international investors and governments.
Self-storage segment leads REIT market with 15.1 percent return.
The FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index, the broadest index of the U.S. REIT industry containing Equity and Mortgage REITs, fell 4.89 percent in October on a total return basis, while the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs Index fell 5.11 percent and the FTSE NAREIT Mortgage REITs Index declined 0.13 percent. In comparison, the S&P 500 fell 1.82 percent in October.
Read the recap of this year's REITwise, and save the date for Nareit's REITwise: 2019 Law, Accounting & Finance Conference.