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.
Nareit’s 2026 outlook addresses the topics that have been on the minds of real estate investors, including valuation divergences, compelling opportunities, and global strategies.
REITwise will take place March 24-26 in Hollywood, FL. This event is the leading educational conference for REITs, covering technical, regulatory, and operational updates.
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.
Data center REITs own and manage highly specialized facilities that house the critical IT infrastructure that powers today’s economy.
Nearly 2,500 people came together over the course of REITweek 2025 to discuss REITs and REIT-based real estate investments.
Everything Nareit does is driven by the reality that REIT-based real estate investment exemplifies real estate working for you—as an investor, as a participant in the global economy and as a member of communities.
Each month, Nareit highlights recent executive career moves, board changes, and other notable individual achievements within the REIT and publicly listed real estate market.
Research released July 9 shows 1031 exchanges have number of benefits for real estate companies.
Real estate investors weigh in on the sustainability issues of importance to them.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs index was down 0.3% in terms of total return.
Companies are seeking well-located, amenitized buildings to get employees back in the office.
According to the 2023 Hodes Weill/Cornell Real Estate Allocations Monitor, institutions consider REITs to be a complement to private real estate in terms of filling allocation needs and addressing liquidity objectives.
Only stock exchange-listed REITs provide the diversification the vast majority of individual investors want and need.
In 2021, REITs outperformed the S&P 500 by 12.6 percentage points with an annual return of 41.3%.
REITs outperformed most other GICs sectors with only 5.8% of the REIT market cap downgraded. REITs were the third best performing GICS sector by this measure.
REITs have helped shape communities and the real estate investment landscape for the past six decades.
Alexandria’s Ari Frankel says the pool of green capital continues to grow.