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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Nareit's inaugural REITworks Conference was held virtually on Sept. 21-22.
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.
Due to the highly unusual nature of this recession, uncertainty about the path of the pandemic, and the potential for a robust recovery, in upcoming earnings announcements the management’s view of market conditions and discussion of the outlook are likely to attract at least as much attention as FFO.
New Quarterly Data Highlights REITs’ Recovery as FFO Reaches New Highs and Retail Sector’s FFO Hits Pre-Pandemic Levels
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.
If you’re a day-trader, average returns during long historical periods are irrelevant. For those with long horizons, exchange-traded Equity REITs have proven themselves over and over again.
Reports from the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that 88% of employers have a formal diversity recruiting effort and 67% have allocated more resources to recruit historically marginalized students.
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.