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.
Analysts point to increasing confidence in economy and sound fundamentals.
SBA Communications sees multiple drivers of growth for its core tower business.
The good news about the outlook for the economy and commercial real estate as of early June is that we are likely at a turning point for labor markets, consumer spending, and business activity.
Shelly Fust says rewarding career opportunities abound, with talent needed at all levels.
COPT’s longtime partnership with the University of Maryland, College Park is helping to turn a great college town into a center of innovation.
REITs, though properties they own or finance, have come to play an increasing role in our communities and the economy. In this educational video, a family realizes how many ways they interact with REIT-owned properties in a given day.
Equinix, Prologis, and Healthpeak Properties featured on Investor’s Business Daily’s 50 Best ESG Companies list.
January was the strongest monthly performance for REITs since October 2011.
Nareit REITweek panel also sees need for pandemic risk insurance.
Equity REITs posted robust earnings in the second quarter, according to the NAREIT T-Tracker®, with total FFO of all listed equity REITs increasing 7.1 percent, representing a 10.3 percent gain from one year ago.
Compared against broad market benchmarks, REITs outperformed the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market by 1.4 percentage points, large cap S&P 500 by 1.3 percentage points, and the small cap Russell 2000 by 4.47 percentage points in January 2020.
REIT balance sheets were strong heading into the pandemic with easy access to cash and lines of credit, and operating performance proved to be resilient.
While some market participants raised concerns about market volatility during March and April, the listed REIT market remained relatively calm. As the market closed on May 5 the 20-day rolling standard deviation of trailing daily returns for the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs Index was 0.82%, slightly below the median value going all the way back to the beginning of 1999.
Nareit’s REITweek: 2019 Investor Conference—held June 4-6 at the New York Hilton Midtown—is the largest annual REIT industry gathering.
Michael J. Seiler is the Robert M. Stanton Endowed Chair and professor of finance and real estate at Old Dominion University and editor of Real Estate Finance.
CEO Amy Tait discusses her company's acquisitions in 2013.