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.
Partnerships are occurring across a range of REIT property sectors.
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.
A close examination of REIT financial exposures suggests that increases in interest rates may have little impact on their operating performance.
The recent Cornell University/Hodes Weill’s 2024 Allocations Monitor report found that in 2023, institutions were more active allocating capital to REITs, as investors looked to capitalize on discrepancies between public and private market valuations.
Analysts point to increasing confidence in economy and sound fundamentals.
After experiencing two consecutive quarters of negative growth in the first half of 2022, U.S. real GDP grew by 2.6% in the third quarter this year.
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.
An investment performance comparison between listed equity REITs and the rest of the U.S. stock market—segmented by sector or by style—highlights the long-term diversification benefits of the listed equity REIT market.
Becoming a core part of new GICS real estate sector reflects growth of REIT-based real estate investment.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index posted a total return of -5.9% and the FTSE Nareit Equity REITs Index fell 6.0% in August.
Nareit and Bloomberg Intelligence’s webinar: Interest Rates, REIT Capital Raising & Cap Rates will take place on Wednesday, June 29.
Through the year-to-date period as of the end of February, REITs outperformed the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market, the large cap S&P 500 and the small cap Russell 2000.
During this period of divergent public and private property valuations, the commercial real estate mortgage market has been marked by higher interest rates and stricter underwriting standards.
March returns total 7.4% for the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index and 6.5% for the FTSE Nareit Equity REITs Index.
Q3 data highlights solid growth in FFO, NOI, and how REITs’ operational performance is keeping pace with inflation.
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.
Evercore ISI, Bank of America Merrill Lynch round out top three of Institutional Investor rankings.