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.
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Nareit’s 2026 outlook addresses the topics that have been on the minds of real estate investors, including valuation divergences, compelling opportunities, and global strategies.
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For 65 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 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.
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.
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.
REITs outperform private real estate by nearly 2.3% in defined benefit (DB) plans, according to a new study by CEM Benchmarking, Inc.
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.
As highlighted in a recent Nareit commentary, the current lingering public-private real estate valuation divergence has been an unwanted visitor for commercial real estate (CRE).
After years in the works, the city of Roswell, Georgia is finally seeing an underused site reach its full potential.
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.
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’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.