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.
Rachel Kerestes is vice president, marketing communications, and Diane Rusignola is senior director, editorial content.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index fell 4.5% in January, and posted a total return of 16.0% since Oct. 19, 2023.
As highlighted in a recent Nareit commentary, the current lingering public-private real estate valuation divergence has been an unwanted visitor for commercial real estate (CRE).
Nareit research has shown that REIT total returns have tended to bounce back and even surge after periods of significant REIT underperformance relative to private real estate.
While publicly traded equity REIT performance has recently been exhibiting an inverse relationship with U.S. 10-year Treasury yield movements, this has not always been the case.
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.
Urban Land Institute forecast projects increased transaction volume, returns, CMBS issuance.
Analysts say the high cost of home ownership remains a strong tailwind for the sector.
Dirk Brounen is professor of real estate economics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
On May 22, 2023, a group of experts from Nareit, KPMG, Green Street, and JBG SMITH convened to discuss Nareit's ESG Dashboard.
Returns seen to be boosted by sustainability achievements.
REITs have seen a large increase in investor interest in ESG with greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and climate change top of mind.
At year-end 2021, 89 REITs representing 91% of market cap in the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index were rated debt issuers.
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.
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.
REITs are making great strides in ESG by working to enhance ESG data and disclosure.