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.
New data from the fourth quarter of 2023 show that REITs continue to have well-structured debt
At the end of 2020, U.S. public REITs owned an estimated 502,937 properties and 15.1 million acres of timberland across the U.S.
Year-to-date total returns for All Equity REITs stands at 31.8% and 34.9% for Equity REITs.
The yield spread to Baa corporates as of the end of 2016 was in the bullish part of its historic range—and if a wide variety of estimates of the past relationship between spreads and forward-looking returns continues to hold, that currently bullish spread would suggest relatively bullish future total returns for investors in exchange-traded Equity REITs.
Year-to-date total returns for All Equity REITs stands at 31.9% and 35.2% for Equity REITs.
During Nareit’s June 28 webinar, panelists discussed what it takes for a real estate company to reach net-zero.
Disappointing earnings from the some of the largest companies outside of the REIT space weighed heavily on REITs at the close of the month.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended and Developed Indexes each rose 1.8% in the first month of 2025, led by industrial, timberland, and health care.
Nareit tracks quarterly investment holdings for the 27 largest actively managed real estate investment funds focusing on REIT investment for insight on expert investor sentiment.
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.
All property sectors met or exceeded their prior week’s performance as REITs posted their strongest weekly performance since Oct. 15.
NAREIT’s Brad Case says conditions continue to improve for U.S. real estate investors.
Each month, Nareit highlights recent executive career moves, board changes, and other notable individual achievements within the REIT and publicly listed real estate market.
Dividend distributions are a vital part of the REIT total return proposition. Since 1995, Nareit has worked with representatives of the Investment Company Institute (ICI) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) to develop procedures for corporate members that are designed to facilitate the timely reporting of the required dividend distribution information while minimizing reporting discrepancies.
REITs supported an estimated 3.5 million fulltime equivalent jobs in the U.S. in 2023, producing $278 billion in labor income.