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.
Experts are forecasting a reinvigoration of the office market due to a boost in leasing from AI-related companies.
Nareit's John Worth along with Brandon Benjamin of Brookfield Asset Management will discuss the performance for the second quarter of 2025 and upcoming trends.
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.
New data from the first quarter of 2025 demonstrate that REITs continue to maintain well-structured debt—90.9% of listed REITs’ total debt was at a fixed rate while 79.4% of their total debt was unsecured, according to Nareit’s quarterly REIT Industry Tracker released today.
REITs outperformed most other GICs sectors with only 5.8% of the REIT market cap downgraded. REITs were the third best performing GICS sector by this measure.
U.S. REITs raised $2.5 billion from secondary debt and equity offerings in the fourth quarter of 2022, down from $8.6 billion raised in Q3.
The growing use of target-date funds (TDFs) remains the dominant investment-related trend in the defined contribution and individual retirement account markets, and REITs continued to be a critical component of TDFs in 2024.
In 2024, U.S. listed REITs distributed approximately $66 billion in dividends, as reflected in Nareit’s REIT Industry Tracker.
REIT’s sale may point to further transactions in lodging sector.
Nareit has named Ayris Scales as Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility & Global Initiatives.
With mixed economic growth results, waning job gains, increasing interest rates, and rising recession risk, the U.S. economy is facing numerous headwinds.
Disappointing earnings from the some of the largest companies outside of the REIT space weighed heavily on REITs at the close of the month.
REIT balance sheet strength, driven by low leverage and fixed-rate debt, offers resilience and flexibility amid market volatility and rising rates.
Beyond its primary public partnership with the Port Authority, Westfield worked with diverse public and private local entities—large and small—focusing on the area’s revitalization.
Hollywood Center Studios to be renamed Sunset Las Palmas.
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) that are housed in properties leased from REITs tend to have better quality measures and ratings compared with those that rent non-REIT properties or own their buildings.
The FTSE EPRA/Nareit Global Real Estate Index Series underperformed broader markets in May as turbulent trading conditions persisted.