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 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.
Nareit’s Calvin Schnure points to uptick in REIT FFO from one year ago.
Alok Singh of RealFoundations discusses new research on REITs' sustainability platforms.
Nareit’s REITworks: 2022 Conference will be held in La Quinta, California on Sept. 12-13.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index declined 1.4% in March and has risen 3.1% on a year-to-date basis as of March 31.
As part of Nareit’s initiative to reach generalist investors, economists John Worth and Calvin Schnure have made recent appearances on TV and radio financial news programs.
Regulations are consistent with congressional intent and recommendations by Nareit and the mutual fund industry.
Hundreds of attendees took part in the the 2015 NAREIT/AREUEA Real Estate Research Conference on June 8 in New York.
While some market participants raised concerns about market volatility during March and April, the listed REIT market remained relatively calm. As the market closed on May 5 the 20-day rolling standard deviation of trailing daily returns for the FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs Index was 0.82%, slightly below the median value going all the way back to the beginning of 1999.
New data from the second quarter of 2025 show that REITs had notable gains in net operating income (NOI)—4.8% year over year, according to the Nareit Total REIT Industry Tracker Series (T-Tracker®) report released today.
Scenes from NAREIT’s Law, Accounting and Finance Conference.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index rose 3.2% in September, continuing to outperform the broader stock market as the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market and Russell 1000 each rose 2.1%.
In 2003, the share of TDFs with REIT exposure was only 50%, while in 2018, 97% of them invest in REITs. In fact, 60% of TDFs have a dedicated REIT sleeve within their asset allocation.
At the end of 2023, U.S. public REITs owned an estimated 580,000 properties—up 1% from the previous year—and 15 million acres of timberland across the U.S.
BTIG’s Jim Sullivan expects REITs to continue to offer aid to tenants.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index rose 2.8% in February and was up 4.6% on a year-to-date basis at month-end.
Cornerstone's Scott Westphal on real estate fund management.