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.
Each year Nareit collects tax reporting data for each Nareit member. View this year's data or explore the archive.
Nareit’s 2026 outlook addresses the topics that have been on the minds of real estate investors, including valuation divergences, compelling opportunities, and global strategies.
REITwise will take place March 24-26 in Hollywood, FL. This event is the leading educational conference for REITs, covering technical, regulatory, and operational updates.
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.
REITs maintained strong balance sheets, financial resilience, and high occupancy rates as the COVID-19 crisis intensified
REIT balance sheets were strong heading into the pandemic with easy access to cash and lines of credit, and operating performance proved to be resilient.
While REITs have underperformed the broader stock market so far in 2020, it is long-term returns that matter. REITs have been a favorable choice when looking at long-term returns.
U.S. stock exchange-listed Equity REITs delivered record Funds From Operations of $15.6 billion in the second quarter of 2017, according to the NAREIT T-Tracker®, a quarterly composite performance measure of the entire U.S. listed REIT industry. This year’s second quarter was the first in which REIT industry FFO exceeded $15 billion, and followed just three years after the REIT industry first broke the $10 billion mark in the second quarter of 2014.
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.
Broad equity and REIT market valuations diverge from time to time.
The Real Estate Equity Securitization Alliance hosted a conference last week that featured leaders from seven global real estate associations and attracted 100 participants worldwide.
The sharp decline in REIT earnings reflects the record contraction in GDP in the second quarter. Economic activity hit bottom in April, however, and began rebounding over the past four months.
While the U.S. remains the largest listed real estate market, the market is increasingly becoming more global.
Industry experts from Nareit, Bloomberg Intelligence, CenterSquare, and AEW examine valuation gaps, interest rates, policy pressures, and sector fundamentals shaping the REIT market in 2026.
REIT active management can consistently add net value to commercial real estate (CRE) portfolios, according to a new study by CEM Benchmarking, Inc.
The organization will use the Nareit Foundation grant to expand the REIT Bridge Program to expose more students to REITs and train them to meet the industry’s current and future workforce needs.
In today's market, joint ventures for most REITs represent a cheaper alternative to raising equity.
REITs still offering stronger returns than other investments on a longer term basis, Case says.