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.
REITweek Investor Conference, taking place June 2-5 in New York, is the REIT industry’s largest annual gathering of executives, investors, and industry partners.
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.
The Nareit universe of REIT indexes is growing and evolving to match an expanding industry and increased demand for data.
REITs average higher returns over multi-year time horizons compared to private real estate with a broader allocation across innovative property sectors, according to Nareit analysis of past performance.
At the end of 2023, U.S. public REITs owned an estimated 580,000 properties—up 1% from the previous year—and 15 million acres of timberland across the U.S.
Rankings weigh ESG performance data and a public survey of corporate social responsibility perceptions.
REITs have helped shape communities and the real estate investment landscape for the past six decades.
In the second quarter of 2024, active managers increased allocations in the digital sectors and health care.
Nareit's T-Tracker for the fourth quarter of 2021 also shows net acquisitions have hit record highs, FFO recovery in 2021 was divergent across sectors, and the industrial center realized impressive gains in Q4.
FFO increased 2.0% in Q1, with wide variation across property types; REITs maintain strong balance sheets, low leverage ratios
A comparison of recent trends of the P/E ratio for the S&P 500 to the price-to-FFO ratio for REITs shows a contrasting risk/reward tradeoff between the broad equity market and REITs.
The REIT industry has evolved as it has expanded, and looks quite different today than it did a generation ago.
REITs were well-positioned heading into the coronavirus crisis and have employed a variety of additional measures to withstand the worst of the downturn.
Nareit’s annual update of REIT property counts and estimated gross asset values by state and property sector is now available on the REITs Across America website.
Investors use Sharpe ratios as a simple measure of risk adjusted return or, put differently, return per unit of risk.
Ed Pettinella Steers Multifamily REIT Adept at Repositioning.
The REIT sector overall entered this crisis period from a stronger position than in previous market downturns in terms of operational performance, balance sheet strength and sources of liquidity available for the potentially lean months ahead.