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.
REITs historically have delivered competitive total returns, based on high, steady dividend income and long-term capital appreciation. Their comparatively low correlation with other assets also makes them an excellent portfolio diversifier that can help reduce overall portfolio risk and increase returns. These are the characteristics of real estate investment.
At the beginning of 2018 REITs were undervalued and poised for outperformance. At the end of the year both statements were still true—but less so, because the outperformance has begun.
New research from Wilshire Funds Management has shown how adding a range of high income-generating assets, including REITs, to model retirement portfolios would have produced a nearly 40 percent gain in income returns while maintaining nearly the same total returns and risk profiles as retirement portfolios with more traditional investment allocations.
Nareit corporate members receive exclusive benefits, including access to advocacy, investors, regulatory engagement, thought leadership, industry-leading research, professional development, member-only events, and more.
New research shows REITs win a majority of head-to-head comparisons between domestic and international private equity real estate funds and REITs.
Speaking as the voice of the industry, Nareit articulates its position at the highest levels of the U.S. and other governments, at state and local levels, and before numerous standards-setting organizations around the globe.