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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The lingering public-private real estate valuation divergence has been disruptive, but it continues to offer potential buying opportunities for investors.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index declined in a volatile April, bouncing back from a low of -11.9% on April 8 to end the month down 2.0%.
Nareit's T-Tracker for the fourth quarter of 2021 also shows net acquisitions have hit record highs, FFO recovery in 2021 was divergent across sectors, and the industrial center realized impressive gains in Q4.
Bloomberg Intelligence and Nareit hosted their 9th joint webinar, “Commercial Real Estate’s Great Restart Brings Opportunity, Challenges.”
Industrial REITs own and manage industrial facilities and rent space in those properties to tenants.
REIT earnings, as measured by funds from operations, increased 30.9% from the previous year to a record high of over $18 billion in the first quarter of 2022, according to the Nareit T-Tracker®.
Interest rate cuts are expected to provide a strong tailwind behind a positive REIT outlook.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index rose 3.2% in September, continuing to outperform the broader stock market as the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market and Russell 1000 each rose 2.1%.
NAREIT’s Brad Case says REIT dividend yields remain high relative to other assets.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Index posted a total return of 3.8% in January, while the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index returned 3.5%.
Newsweek and global data research firm Statista narrowed list from 2,000 public companies to 300.
REITs outperformed large-cap equities and the broader stock market in January, with the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index posting a total return of 2.8%.
As the REIT industry has grown and matured, it has had to deal with the misperception that Equity REITs generally are part and parcel of “Financials” in the world of equities.
Over the first six months of 2017 the broad U.S. stock market had outperformed the REIT market, with the Russell 3000 Index showing total returns of 8.93% compared to just 5.43% for the FTSE NAREIT All REIT Index. Dig just a little deeper, though, and this turns out not to be a “stocks vs REITs” story at all.
In today’s economy, the pace of inflation has moderated, economic growth has remained healthy, the unemployment rate has held steady, the prospects of recession have lessened, and expectations for continued monetary policy easing have proliferated.