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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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.
The U.S. commercial real estate market is amid an uncoupling. Property operational performance has generally been strong for both public and private real estate, but valuation metrics and total returns have diverged.
Panelists from Vornado Realty Trust, Kilroy Realty Corp., and Host Hotels & Resorts discussed ESG in the REIT industry at REITworld 2018’s opening session.
As part of Nareit’s initiative to reach generalist investors, economists John Worth and Calvin Schnure have made recent appearances on TV and radio financial news programs.
Nareit analysis of data from Preqin, a financial research firm that tracks investments in alternative assets, indicates that the use of REITs by pension plans has increased in the last six years.
The overall REIT sector was slightly down, with the All Equity REITs total return index declining 0.6%.
U.S. stock exchange-listed Equity REITs drove operating and earnings growth higher in the fourth quarter, highlighted by record occupancy rates and rising Funds from Operations.
The U.S. REIT market outperformed the broader equity market in May and the first five months of the year. The FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index, the broadest measure of the U.S. REIT market including both Equity REITs and Mortgage REITs, delivered a total return of 2.34 percent in May and 6.53 percent for the year through May 31.
Mortgage REITs’ total returns on average continued to outpace the S&P 500’s in April 2017 and doubled the performance of the broad market index in the first four months of the year.
As of the end of September 2016 the average dividend yield for stock exchange-traded Equity REITs was 3.70%. That’s extremely low by historical standards: in fact, the average Equity REIT yield has been greater than 3.70% nearly 90% of the time stretching all the way back to the beginning of 1972.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index rallied in the fourth quarter of 2023 as bond yields declined in the United States and other developed markets.
FTSE Nareit All REITs Index Shows 1.46% Gain in Q3
Urban growth trends could be a boon for investors.
REIT diversification benefits come not merely from their low correlations to other assets but also from their historically strong risk-adjusted returns.
The 2022 winners, honored at Nareit’s REITworld in November, spotlight the critical role DEI plays in the success of workplaces, business, and communities.
Nareit’s REITworld: 2022 Annual Conference convened nearly 1,300 REIT industry professionals and investors Nov. 15–17 in San Francisco.