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.
REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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.
CEM Benchmarking’s 2026 study also reveals allocations, returns, volatility, and risk-adjusted performance of 12 asset classes over 26 years.
Are REITs underrepresented in your clients' portfolios? Commercial real estate represents 15% of the U.S. investment market.
When assessing the outlook for REITs and commercial real estate in 2022 and beyond, it is helpful to distinguish between impermanent or cyclical effects and the longer-term structural changes that result from changes in behavior.
In 2016, S&P Dow Jones Indices and MSCI elevated stock-exchange listed real estate companies (including REITs) from under the Financials Sector to a new 11th headline Real Estate Sector under the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS).