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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With the commercial real estate (CRE) market characterized by softening fundamentals, a lingering public-private real estate valuation problem, and higher interest rates, property transaction activities have remained stifled.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Index posted a total return of 10.7% in 2025, while the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index returned 9.5% for the year.
In the third quarter of 2022, the FTSE Nareit All Equity Index and NCREIF Fund Index–Open End Diversified Core Equity posted rolling four-quarter total returns of -16.3% and 22.1%, respectively.
A recent research note by Hodes Weill & Associates (HW) called REITs versus Private Real Estate Funds: Partners, Not Rivals addressed the merits of public and private real estate in an institutional investor’s portfolio.
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.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index rose 1.2% in June.
There is a high barrier to entry to invest directly in commercial property and most U.S. families do not invest in commercial property unless they have significant financial resources, according to data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF).
The $64 million question in commercial real estate today is whether or not the sector is past its peak and headed for a slowdown.
The study provides a comprehensive review of investment allocations and actual investment performance across 12 asset groups. The analysis looks at fund performance over 17 years, the longest period for which CEM had data for some of the assets studied, and it utilizes a proprietary dataset covering more than 200 public and private sector pension plans with over $3 trillion in combined assets under management.
In November, the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index gained back most of the ground lost in the previous month, posting a total return of 3.5%.
REITs have outperformed private real estate property and fund indexes through the fourth quarter of 2021 and have an annual increase of 41.3% in 2021 compared to 22.2% for private real estate.
On a year-to-date basis, the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index is up 3.5% and the FTSE Nareit Equity REITs Index is up 5.4%.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index fell 3.6% in October, underperforming the broader stock market as the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market and Russell 1000 declined 0.7%.
REIT balance sheet strength, driven by low leverage and fixed-rate debt, offers resilience and flexibility amid market volatility and rising rates.
The traditional real estate appraisal process works reliably during relatively stable real estate markets but reliance on the three established approaches—cost, sales comparison, and income—can be challenging when markets are volatile.