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.
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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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Rising interest rates worry real estate investors. Their fears are rooted in the view that interest rate increases will result in rising cap rates and, all else being equal, declining property values.
Recent disputes over tariffs and trade policy introduced volatility to global real estate markets alongside broader stock markets.
New research shows that REITs target high performing operators for investment and that skilled nursing operators increase staffing after becoming REIT tenants.
Nareit is tracking quarterly investment holdings for the 28 largest actively managed real estate investment funds focusing on REIT investment.
REITs outpace broader equities market.
The 2019 survey collected data from more than 800 readers across the real estate investment industry.
U.S. equity REITs delivered higher returns for pension funds than unlisted real estate over a 20-year period, according to new research released today.
Although the economic, financial, and property markets have experienced considerable changes over the last few years, REIT operational performance has maintained resilience.
Publicly traded REITs are continuing to adopt, implement, and report on environmental, social, and governance practices and integrate them across their businesses.
NAREIT staff reviewed impact of FIRPTA reforms and creation of new GICS real estate sector.
REIT active management can consistently add net value to commercial real estate (CRE) portfolios, according to a new study by CEM Benchmarking, Inc.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index rallied in the fourth quarter of 2023 as bond yields declined in the United States and other developed markets.
Industrial REITs own and manage industrial and logistics facilities and rent space in those properties to tenants.
Putting the pieces of connected commerce together in the COVID-19 era.
The yield spread to Baa corporates as of the end of 2016 was in the bullish part of its historic range—and if a wide variety of estimates of the past relationship between spreads and forward-looking returns continues to hold, that currently bullish spread would suggest relatively bullish future total returns for investors in exchange-traded Equity REITs.
Recent research by Nareit shows that REIT returns have tended to bounce back—and even surge—after significant public and private real estate market divergences.