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The large specialist ownership base for REITs can help investors in direct and indirect ways.
U.S. REITs continue to benefit from low interest rates and positive fundamentals, analysts say.
NAREIT’s Brad Case says a down month is normal for REITs during bull market.
Leading real estate fund managers reflect on gains made in 2019 and assess the outlook for REITs and listed real estate in 2020.
Nareit’s REITworld: 2025 Annual Conference convened 1,000 REIT leaders and industry professionals Dec. 8–11 in Dallas.
The yield spread to Treasuries as of the end of 2016 was in the bullish part of its historic range—and if a wide variety of estimates of the past relationship between spreads and forward-looking returns continues to hold, that currently bullish spread would suggest relatively bullish future total returns for investors in exchange-traded Equity REITs.
Interest rate concerns play major role in shaping market sentiment, analysts say.
While correlations between stock markets in the United States and China, and the rest of Asia and Europe have risen as trade disputes have heated up, REITs’ correlations with overseas markets have moved lower.
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%.
Single-family rental REITs are solidifying their position in the residential housing sector.
The third annual report demonstrates that REITs continue to enhance practices and proactively integrate ESG efforts across all areas of business.
Higher occupancy, low interest rates and muted supply are supporting growth.
The growing use of target-date funds (TDFs) remains the dominant investment-related trend in the defined contribution and individual retirement account markets, and REITs continued to be a critical component of TDFs in 2020.
Nareit analysis of data from Preqin, a financial research firm that tracks investments in alternative assets, indicates that the use of REITs by pension plans has been increasing, particularly among the largest, most sophisticated plans.