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.
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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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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.
PREA Quarterly article highlights approach taken by MN and Bouwinvest.
Urban Land Institute forecast projects increased transaction volume, returns, CMBS issuance.
With REIT implied capitalization (cap) rates significantly higher than private real estate transaction cap rates, the attractiveness of public equity REITs has increased.
The bipartisan infrastructure package supported by the Biden administration totaling $1.2 trillion would upgrade the country’s roads, bridges, airports and railroads.
REITs supported an estimated 3.4 million fulltime equivalent (FTE) jobs in the U.S. in 2022, producing $263 billion in labor income.
Roughly 44% of American households are invested in REIT stocks.
Nareit is pleased to welcome Strawberry Fields REIT as its newest corporate member.
Nareit’s annual update of REIT property counts and estimated gross asset values by state and property sector is now available on the REITs Across America website.
From 2016 to 2019, the jobs equivalent contribution from REITs has risen by 600 thousand.
EY’s latest REIT Economic Contributions report estimates REITs supported 2.93 million full time equivalent jobs in the U.S in 2020, producing $197.0 billion in labor income.
The rapid rise in interest rates since the beginning of 2022 has exposed fault lines in banking, private equity, and commercial real estate business models that were predicated on low debt rates.
With softening fundamentals, a lingering public-private valuation problem, and muted property transaction activity, the U.S. commercial real estate market appears to be stuck in a period of stagnation.
Although many institutional investors focus their property investment strategies on private equity real estate, current and expected market conditions tend to favor public real estate.
REITs supported an estimated 3.2 million fulltime equivalent (FTE) jobs in the U.S. in 2021, producing $229 billion in labor income, according to EY’s latest Economic Contribution of REITs report, commissioned by Nareit.