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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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.
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As highlighted in a recent Nareit commentary, the current lingering public-private real estate valuation divergence has been an unwanted visitor for commercial real estate (CRE).
From 2016 to 2018, the jobs equivalent contribution from REITs is up an estimated 19.0%.
NAREIT’s Brad Case says REIT fundamentals remain strong.
The FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index declined 7.0% in September as the 10-year Treasury yield continued to climb, ending the month at 4.6%, while the All Equity REITs dividend yield ended the month at 4.4%.
Most sectors were up, including a 10.3% total return for timber REITs, a 6.9% total return for specialty REITs and 6.7% total return for commercial financing mREITs.
U.S. REITs raised more than $126 billion from IPOs and secondary debt and equity offerings in 2021, a new record for annual capital raising.
Rising GDP and the job growth that goes with it are the most important determinants of demand for real estate, as businesses need more office space for workers and industrial space to produce, store and ship goods.
Negative news about store closings have cast a shadow over the business of retail REITs. But regional mall and shopping center REITs face the challenge with an air of resilience and, for some, even optimism.
While publicly traded equity REIT performance has recently been exhibiting an inverse relationship with U.S. 10-year Treasury yield movements, this has not always been the case.
David Bonser, a global managing partner at Hogan Lovells, says with M&A activity robust and financing readily available, REITs are in a much better place today than was expected just six or 12 months ago.
Nareit and the New York Stock Exchange are partnering again to host the REIT Investor Relations Symposium. This invitation-only event is designed exclusively for IR professionals.
Strong month for retail sector
New research shows REITs win a majority of head-to-head comparisons between domestic and international private equity real estate funds and REITs.
Health care real estate is adapting to a rapidly shifting landscape.
Cambridge Associates reports that private equity real estate funds have underperformed listed equity REITs by 3.91 percentage points per year over the past 25 years.
One of the more common ways to describe the outlook for REITs is to pick which inning of a ballgame corresponds to today’s REIT market. For the past several years, most observers have said the market was in the seventh or eighth inning.