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.
REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
The REIT industry's premier annual conference, bringing together leaders for networking, one-on-one meetings, and insights shaping the year ahead.
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.
Pension, endowment, and foundation funds control over $12 trillion in total assets, with approximately $900 billion invested in real estate.
Q&A with Steve Oliner, American Enterprise Institute and UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate
Nareit tracks quarterly investment holdings for the 26 largest actively managed real estate investment funds focusing on REIT investment for insights into expert investor sentiment.
Save the date for Nareit's HR Forum 2019, held Sept. 16-17 at the Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston.
Despins spoke with public pension fund managers at NCPERS conference.
Consumers are returning to malls as the U.S. emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The global active manager tracker follows the quarterly investment holdings by the 25 largest actively managed funds invested globally.
Trip to China includes meeting with largest sovereign wealth fund in the world.
During the second quarter of 2015, NAREIT conducted 112 meetings with many of the largest and most influential investment organizations within the institutional investment marketplace in the United States.
NAREIT senior executives travel to Toledo, Ohio, to meet with Corporate Member Welltower.
When REITs invest in new development projects, the benefits extend beyond the companies and their tenants and shareholders.
Year-to-date total returns for All Equity REITs stands at 30.1% and 32.6% for Equity REITs.
Since most economic activity takes place within a commercial real estate structure, these changes will impact how people use commercial real estate in the future.
The correlation between REITs and the broad stock market has always been relatively low because REIT returns are driven by the real estate market cycle whereas returns for most other equities are driven by the much shorter business cycle.
CEM research shows that REITs had an average net return of about 9.7% from 1998-2022.