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 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.
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First Potomac Realty Trust has made big moves to reposition itself in the U.S. capital
Mervyn King talks about the events that led up to the financial crisis, the hubris of economists, war games with the Federal Reserve and more.
Dirk Brounen is professor of real estate economics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Westfield focuses on flagship stores in flagship assets.
KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. (NYSE: KREF) has assembled a loan portfolio during the past few years that is matched to a conservative set of liabilities—a strategy that has held up well during recent market volatility fueled by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mark Ruloff is Director, Asset Allocation – Towers Watson Investment Services
Ashford Hospitality CEO Monty Bennett juggles spin-offs, new platforms and social media.
The coming year is expected to see heightened regulatory scrutiny of cybersecurity risk and disclosure matters, ensuring that REITs remain laser-focused on this key corporate governance issue.
Farmland Partners and its growing farm partners suggest that the REIT structure offers unique benefits to both the farmer and the investor alike by stabilizing the process.
NAREIT’s Dividends Through Diversity Initiative seeks to promote the recruitment, inclusion and advancement of women and other minority groups in REITs and the broader commercial real estate industry.
Debate among investors and academics regarding the wisdom of public company buybacks continues.