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.
According to the 2023 Hodes Weill/Cornell Real Estate Allocations Monitor, institutions consider REITs to be a complement to private real estate in terms of filling allocation needs and addressing liquidity objectives.
Nareit’s REIT Industry Sustainability Report 2025 analyzed REIT reporting on governance practices, building resilient real estate, and engagement with stakeholders over time.
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.
Steve Brown is a senior vice president and senior portfolio manager with American Century Investments.
Listed equity REITs are being used to complete investors’ private real estate portfolios.
Historically, REITs have performed well during periods of rising long-term interest rates with average four-quarter return in periods with rising rates of 16.55% compared to 10.68% in non-rising rate periods from the first quarter of 1992 to the fourth quarter of 2021.
The Nareit universe of REIT indexes is growing and evolving to match an expanding industry and increased demand for data.
REITs have taken a proactive approach to refinancing in the past few years.
Despite better performance, REITs remain underutilized by pensions.
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REITs have seen a large increase in investor interest in ESG with greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and climate change top of mind.
One of the investment industry’s most influential says REITs have passed an important test.
Operating performance of U.S. stock exchange-listed Equity REITs eased modestly in the third quarter, following increases in the first two quarters of the year.
The current bull market for exchange-listed equity REITs has rewarded investors with returns averaging more than 21% per year over the past 8½ years—but by the standards of previous real estate market cycles this one has not even hit its stride yet.
New data reveals evolving views on REITs as part of institutional portfolios, emphasizing their role as complements to private real estate holdings.
Among survey respondents more than 62% of REITs by equity market capitalization indicated that they experienced an increase in ESG reporting requests from investors between 2019 and 2020.