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 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.
Nareit’s REITworld: 2024 Annual Conference convened 1,300 REIT leaders and industry professionals Nov. 18–21 in Las Vegas.
Cohen & Steers’ Jon Cheigh says REITs should also maintain entrepreneurial and visionary attributes.
New research by Nareit estimates that 168 million Americans, or roughly 50% of American households, were invested in REIT stocks in 2023.
CEM has collaborated with Nareit for 10 years on pension fund performance, allocation research.
Industrial REITs own and manage industrial facilities and rent space in those properties to tenants.
The year ahead is likely to see further improvement in commercial real estate markets as the economy continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are the top ten developments to follow.
Global real estate investors say COVID-19 continues to cast a long shadow, although the market remains fundamentally healthy.
U.S. REITs raised $17.6 billion from secondary debt and equity offerings in the first quarter of 2024.
On a global basis, data centers, industrial, and self-storage have been the strongest performing sectors in 2023.
REITs supported an estimated 3.5 million fulltime equivalent jobs in the U.S. in 2023, producing $278 billion in labor income.
Nareit’s Ed Pierzak says REIT balance sheets benefitting from low leverage, access to unsecured debt.
Dividend distributions are a vital part of the REIT total return proposition. Since 1995, Nareit has worked with representatives of the Investment Company Institute (ICI) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) to develop procedures for corporate members that are designed to facilitate the timely reporting of the required dividend distribution information while minimizing reporting discrepancies.
LEED, BREEAM, and Fitwel are among the most popular platforms used by REITs today.
REITs look to address rising risks of weather-related events.
REITs have low exposure to floating rate debt, with over 87% of the debt held by the industry at fixed rates.
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) that are housed in properties leased from REITs tend to have better quality measures and ratings compared with those that rent non-REIT properties or own their buildings.