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 say it’s important for ETFs to embrace REITs, and vice versa.
REITworld will take place Dec. 8-11 in Dallas, TX. This event provides opportunities for individual meetings between REITs, investors, and analysts.
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.
With a Wave of Bank Debt Coming Due, REITs Ready to Capitalize.
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.
New research indicates that pension funds would have benefitted from increasing their allocations to stock exchange-listed Equity REITs.
NAREIT’s Calvin Schnure says occupancy rates at record highs.
Nareit has named Edward F. Pierzak as Senior Vice President of Research.
IREI/Nareit webinar also examined impact of technology, public-private performance, and more.
I think that investors often view public and private real estate investment as an “either-or” decision, but that does not have to be the case.
REIT leverage ratios declined on both a book-value and market-value basis in the third quarter, as prudent balance sheet management reduced the sector’s exposure to interest rates.
New data from the second quarter of 2025 show that REITs had notable gains in net operating income (NOI)—4.8% year over year, according to the Nareit Total REIT Industry Tracker Series (T-Tracker®) report released today.
Bi-monthly thoughts from NAREIT's Chairman.
REITs and broad market equities faced challenges in August, as the sharply rising 10-year Treasury yield hit 4.34%, its highest level since 2007, and then declined to 4.09% in the final week of the month.
On a year-to-date basis, the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index is up 3.5% and the FTSE Nareit Equity REITs Index is up 5.4%.
Nareit’s John Worth and Brookfield’s Brandon Benjamin assess REIT performance.