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.
The question on everyone’s mind is, will this drive up cap rates, possibly causing property prices to fall?
Empify, a fintech company that helps underrepresented communities learn about finance and build wealth through investing, bestowed Nareit with its Innovation and Impact Award during Empify’s WealthBuilder Weekend Conference (WB Weekend).
The apartment sector remains robust. Vacancy rates continued at 4.2%, a decade-low level that indicates little (if any) excess supply. An acceleration in the national job market has spurred household formation and continues to fuel strong rental demand. Rent growth eased to a 2.5% annual rate; this slowing may be due to seasonal demand weakness during the fall.
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®.
In the second quarter of 2024, active managers increased allocations in the digital sectors and health care.
Nareit tracks quarterly investment holdings for the largest actively managed real estate investment funds focusing on REIT investment for insights into expert investor sentiment.
The data show positive fundamentals entering the New Year. Supply remains in check, and demand growth is sustained, despite some bumps along the way.
REITs have low exposure to floating rate debt, with over 87% of the debt held by the industry at fixed rates.
With the commercial real estate (CRE) market characterized by softening fundamentals, a lingering public-private real estate valuation problem, and higher interest rates, property transaction activities have remained stifled.
CEO Joey Agree says net lease REIT has aligned its portfolio with omnichannel retail environment.
The movement towards more sustainable practices continues with commercial real estate, and REITs are helping lead the charge.
The goal of the Business Continuity Coalition is to advocate for a public/private business continuity insurance program that, in the event of a government-ordered shutdown, will enable employers to keep payrolls and supply chains intact.
While correlations between stock markets in the United States and China, and the rest of Asia and Europe have risen as trade disputes have heated up, REITs’ correlations with overseas markets have moved lower.
The FTSE EPRA/Nareit Global Real Estate Index Series outperformed broader markets in April.