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.
REITs provide diversification to investment portfolios because an investment in REITs is an investment in commercial real estate – a different asset class from other stocks and bonds. While returns of other stocks generally follow the business cycle, REIT returns follow the real estate market cycle.
Rep. Dave Schweikert (R-AZ), a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, visited STORE Capital's headquarters in Scottsdale, AZ and met with CEO Chris Volk.
To gauge the possible impact of continued Fed tightening on REIT operating performance in 2016, NAREIT economist Calvin Schnure analyzed REIT industry operating performance during the 2004-2006 cycle of gradual Fed rate increases following what was then a historically long period of low rates.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) received Nareit’s 2018 Small Investor Empowerment Award.
This interactive webinar—held on July 21—will bring together an ESG-focused REIT investor and two REIT executives to discuss how their perspectives, and their company’s priorities in ESG, have evolved recently.
The continued fallout from the UK’s vote to exit the European Union has punished investors with exposure not only in that country but in the rest of Europe too. No assets have been hit harder than British real estate, but investors in the British stock market, European stocks, and European real estate have suffered as well.
Nareit awards recognize influence and contributions of industry leaders.
Rep. Michael Bishop (R-MI), a member of the House Ways & Means Committee, visited the SkyVue complex located on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI. The facility is owned and operated by EdR.
Standards reflects NAREIT recommendations.
NAREIT comments on usefulness of proposed standard.
Over the first six months of 2017 the broad U.S. stock market had outperformed the REIT market, with the Russell 3000 Index showing total returns of 8.93% compared to just 5.43% for the FTSE NAREIT All REIT Index. Dig just a little deeper, though, and this turns out not to be a “stocks vs REITs” story at all.
"A REIT provides a good basis for knowledge and growth. They're more structured and they also provide assistance to their newer employees."
Stock exchange-listed REITs raised a total of $59.29 billion in public capital in 2015, compared with $63.64 billion raised in 2014. The FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index grew to 223 REITs with a combined equity market capitalization of $939 billion at year end 2015, up from 216 REITs with a combined market capitalization of $907 billion at the end of 2014.
Nareit's ESG Update, a newsletter highlighting Nareit's ESG activities in Fall 2021.
Last week, a joint committee of the House of Representatives and Senate in Hawaii approved S.B. 118, a bill calling for a study on the impact of REITs in the state and the potential effect of repealing the dividends paid deduction (DPD)for REITs.
Rep. Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) met with Dana Anderson, Vice Chairman Emeritus, Macerich, during a visit to the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, Kansas. Rep. Jenkins is a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee.