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.
REITweek Investor Conference, taking place June 2-5 in New York, is the REIT industry’s largest annual gathering of executives, investors, and industry partners.
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.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index rallied in the fourth quarter of 2023 as bond yields declined in the United States and other developed markets.
Acquisition activity in the second quarter was robust across most property sectors.
REITs outperform private real estate by nearly 2.3% in defined benefit (DB) plans, according to a new study by CEM Benchmarking, Inc.
Over the two market days following the Brexit vote U.S. stock market volatility more than doubled, from 9.9% (below its inter-quartile range) to 22.0% (above its IQR)—but U.S. REIT market volatility nudged up by barely one-seventh, from 9.6% to 10.9%.
The listed REIT industry continues to grow and prosper. Total Funds from Operations (FFO) of listed Equity REITs rose 7.9 percent in the second quarter, to $15.6 billion, according to the NAREIT T-Tracker®.
Nareit analysis of data from Preqin, a financial research firm that tracks investments in alternative assets, indicates that the use of REITs by pension plans has been increasing, particularly among the largest, most sophisticated plans.
The yield spread to Treasuries 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.
Real GDP rose at a 6.5% annual rate in the second quarter of 2021, and the details of the GDP report have several positive implications for the outlook for commercial real estate markets and REITs.
The U.S. economy has faced numerous headwinds over the last few years.
It may be surprising to many investors to learn that the same data they may use to value exchange-traded Equity REITs can also be used as a tactical signal for shifting capital between REITs and non-REIT stocks.
Greg Steele of Capital One offers assessments of different sectors in the REIT market.
Nareit's T-Tracker for the fourth quarter of 2021 also shows net acquisitions have hit record highs, FFO recovery in 2021 was divergent across sectors, and the industrial center realized impressive gains in Q4.
Historically, when REIT dividend yields became high relative to the yields on other income-oriented investments, that has usually been a sign that REITs had become undervalued and were likely to perform strongly over the next several years.
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.
Solid demand, muted supply and rising rents expected to continue, according to CEO Phil Hawkins.