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.
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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
The REIT industry's premier annual conference, bringing together leaders for networking, one-on-one meetings, and insights shaping the year ahead.
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 tracks quarterly investment holdings for the largest actively managed real estate investment funds focusing on REIT investment for insights into expert investor sentiment.
Historical data show that, on average, real estate has enjoyed solid total returns across different interest rate regimes with REITs consistently outperforming their private market counterparts.
March 16, 2021 - Nareit Senior Economist Calvin Schnure joined a virtual summit featuring a panel of economists specializing in real estate moderated by Akiko Matsuda, a reporter with The Real Deal.
Listed equity REITs are being used to complete investors’ private real estate portfolios.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Index posted a total return of 11.1% through the first two months of 2026, while the FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index returned 10.8% for the same period.
To coincide with and in recognition of Women’s History Month, Nareit is asking female REIT executives “What advice would you give to your younger self when you were just getting started in your career?”
REITs are gaining ground in their efforts to attract generalist investors.
REITs posted positive returns to begin 2025 as the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index rose 1.0% in January.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index showed resilience in a tumultuous April, posting a total return of 1.3%. On a year-to-date basis, the index has returned 4.4%.
Pension, endowment, and foundation funds control over $12 trillion in total assets, with approximately $900 billion invested in real estate.
A comparison of recent trends of the P/E ratio for the S&P 500 to the price-to-FFO ratio for REITs shows a contrasting risk/reward tradeoff between the broad equity market and REITs.
Specialty, data centers, health care REITs led returns in 2024.
See how Nareit member companies are working to minimize disruption caused by COVID-19.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs index was down 0.3% in terms of total return.
Self-storage, manufactured homes and mortgage REITs among best performers.
Across the various REIT sectors, there were seven property sectors with gains for the week, led by lodging/resorts with a total return of 7.6%.