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.
Each year Nareit collects tax reporting data for each Nareit member. View this year's data or explore the archive.
Lineage Legacies is designed to give team members a more direct connection to the company’s long-term performance, while supporting their own financial futures
The REIT industry's premier annual conference, bringing together leaders for networking, one-on-one meetings, and insights shaping the year ahead.
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.
Morningstar Associates’ analysis finds optimal portfolio allocations to REITs up to 13% in well-diversified portfolios.
Are REITs underrepresented in your clients' portfolios? Commercial real estate represents 15% of the U.S. investment market.
Advanced portfolio modelling technique using 40 years of investment return data increased allocations to REITs, high-yield bonds and preferred stocks in optimized portfolios.
Study shows including REITs in portfolios boosts returns and reduces risks for retirement savers.
Active managers will continue to strategically allocate investments in growing economies with strong real estate fundamentals in 2026.
A 2024 Morningstar Associates analysis, sponsored by Nareit, found that the optimal portfolio allocation to REITs ranges from 4.2% to 20.0% across a range of lifestages.
New NAREIT-sponsored research from Wilshire Funds Management shows that adding a range of high income-producing assets, including REITs, to a traditional retirement-stage portfolio would have boosted income returns by nearly 40 percent.
Multiple studies conducted by different research firms have come to similar conclusions, finding that the optimal portfolio allocation to REITs may be between 5% and 15%.
Individuals can invest in REITs in a variety of different ways, including purchasing shares of REIT stocks, mutual funds, and exchange-traded funds. REITs also play a growing role in defined benefit and defined contribution investment plans.
CEO Randy Churchey expects REITs to increase their share of student housing market.
Self-storage REITs employ modern technologies to better understand the demographics in an area and target those households that are most likely to need storage
A new Morningstar Associates analysis, sponsored by Nareit, found that the optimal portfolio allocation to REITs ranges between 5% and 18%.
Institutional investors are increasingly using REITs as part of their portfolio completion strategies. Nareit’s series of case studies show how they are using REITs to achieve sector diversification, geographic diversification, and to capitalize on tactical opportunities.
Institutional investors are increasingly using REITs as part of their portfolio completion strategies. Nareit’s series of case studies shows how they are using REITs to achieve sector diversification, geographic diversification, and to capitalize on tactical opportunities.