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REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
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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
REITs have raised approximately $10 billion in 2026, a figure that does not include first quarter ATM issuance due to a lag in reporting.
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.
Although the lingering CRE valuation divergence has been disruptive, it has created opportunities for investors and benefited REITs.
Only stock exchange-listed REITs provide the diversification the vast majority of individual investors want and need.
U.S. REITs raised $23.3 billion from secondary debt and equity offerings in the third quarter of 2024; $15.4 billion came from debt, $5.1 billion was raised in one IPO, and $2.8 billion came from secondary common and preferred equity offerings.
The firm that led the way bringing REIT investing into the mainstream is getting more sophisticated.
Michael Nash spoke recently with REIT magazine on topics including the state of market fundamentals and the reasons why Blackstone has been selling so much of its real estate lately.