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.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index returned its strongest monthly performance of the year in July, posting a total return of 7.2% and outperforming broader markets.
One of the dominant themes among institutional real estate investors of the past few years has been the shift toward “alternative” property types.
Gaming REITs specialize in owning and leasing properties specifically used for gaming and entertainment purposes, such as casinos and related venues.
The JOLTS report on labor market turnover can help shed light on the outlook for the economy and for real estate.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index declined 2.4% in March as broader market equities suffered greater losses, with the Russell 1000 declining 5.8% and the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market falling 5.9%.
Forty REITs represented at annual event.
Data center REITs own and manage highly specialized facilities that house the critical IT infrastructure that powers today’s economy.
U.S. REITs raised $12.2 billion from secondary debt and equity offerings in the first quarter of 2025.
There’s little difference between the income earned by the largest, most sophisticated investors in private equity real estate and the income earned by the smallest individual investors in listed equity REITs.
Andrew Richard is a managing director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division.
CreXus got its start in 2009 to take advantage of the opportunities to buy commercial real estate-related assets that those troubled times presented.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index posted a total return of 5.3% in May, marking the strongest monthly performance of 2024 and outperforming broader equity markets.
As the world’s population ages, Welltower CEO Thomas DeRosa sees an unparalleled opportunity to transform the health care infrastructure needed to meet the wellness needs of seniors.
At the end of 2020, U.S. public REITs owned an estimated 502,937 properties and 15.1 million acres of timberland across the U.S.
Here’s the myth: an increase in interest rates is bad for real estate investors. Here’s the empirical fact: the historical evidence shows that real estate investors—at least those who invest through exchange-traded REITs—have usually done better during rising-rate environments than when interest rates were declining.