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.
The commercial real estate industry faces risks from natural disasters and climate change, making preparedness crucial for protecting properties and communities linked to REITs. Join Nareit and sustainability experts to discuss proactive measures that can lower disaster costs and yield economic benefits that exceed initial investments.
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.
European real estate, and the unique value it offers for global investors, was the focus of a Nareit REITweek 2025 panel.
FFO increased 19.8% in Q2, with a broad-based earnings recovery exceeding the pre-pandemic peak.
The stock exchange-listed U.S. REIT industry delivered double-digit increases in operating performance, measured by Funds From Operations (FFO) and Net Operating Income (NOI), as well as dividends paid to shareholders in calendar 2015 and the year’s fourth quarter compared to the same periods in 2014, according to the latest NAREIT T-Tracker report. The listed REIT industry’s total FFO, NOI and dividends paid increased in each of the four quarters of 2015 over the same quarter in the prior year.
REITs outperform private real estate by nearly 2.3% in defined benefit (DB) plans, according to a new study by CEM Benchmarking, Inc.
New indices introduced by Green Street allow us for the first time to compare property price performance to total returns for property types outside of the traditional core REIT sectors.
The continued fallout from the UK’s vote to exit the European Union has punished investors with exposure not only in that country but in the rest of Europe too. No assets have been hit harder than British real estate, but investors in the British stock market, European stocks, and European real estate have suffered as well.
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.
Stock exchange-listed U.S. REITs further extended their lead in total returns over the broader equity market in June and the first half of 2016. According to NAREIT, the FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index, the broadest benchmark of the listed U.S. REIT industry containing both Equity and Mortgage REITs, delivered a total return of 6.68 percent in June and 13.65 percent in the first six months of 2016.
The diversification benefits of exchange-traded Equity REITs relative to the non-REIT parts of the stock market have persisted throughout a long period encompassing an almost unfathomly severe downturn—yet they have almost never been stronger than they were as 2016 came to a close.
The overall composite price index in March stood 7.9 percent above one year earlier. This increase represents an acceleration of price gains from those during most of 2017, to the most rapid pace since 2016.
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.
Nareit's inaugural REITworks Conference was held virtually on Sept. 21-22.
NAREIT’s new Chair is Timothy J. Naughton, Chairman and CEO of AvalonBay Communities, Inc. Naughton takes over from NAREIT’s 2016 Chair, Edward J. Fritsch, President and CEO of Highwoods Properties, Inc.