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.
REITweek is the largest REIT-focused event, connecting institutional investors with REIT management teams through company presentations, one-on-one meetings, and curated networking.
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.
As pension, endowment, foundation, and sovereign fund investors evaluate the benefits that exposure to commercial real estate bring to investment portfolios, they should know that stock exchange-listed REITs and real estate securities offer meaningful advantages as a way of obtaining that exposure.
The pandemic's impact on demand will be short-term, but there may also be longer-term structural changes
Institutional investors are increasingly using REITs as part of their portfolio completion strategies. Nareit’s series of institutional investor case studies shows how investors are using REITs to achieve sector diversification, geographic diversification, and to capitalize on tactical opportunities.
With everyday life upended by the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, the commercial real estate industry is shifting on a daily basis.
New research from Wilshire Funds Management has shown how adding a range of high income-generating assets, including REITs, to model retirement portfolios would have produced a nearly 40 percent gain in income returns while maintaining nearly the same total returns and risk profiles as retirement portfolios with more traditional investment allocations.
The next year is likely to be a good but not great one for real estate, with solid job growth, consumer spending and business activity driving demand for nearly all types of commercial real estate.
Nareit corporate members receive exclusive benefits, including access to advocacy, investors, regulatory engagement, thought leadership, industry-leading research, professional development, member-only events, and more.
The total return of the U.S. Equity REIT market fell short of the S&P 500’s gain in 2016, while Mortgage REITs nearly doubled the total return of the broader equity market.
Nareit and its members participate with industry stakeholders on various initiatives and programs that impact the broader commercial real estate community.
Nareit’s Investment Affairs & Investor Education Outreach Program has been developed to inform institutional investors, individual investors and financial advisors worldwide about the many positive investment performance attributes of REIT-based real estate investment, thereby empowering all cohorts of investors to make more informed decisions about the appropriate allocation of assets invested in REITs.
An investment performance comparison between listed equity REITs and the rest of the U.S. stock market—segmented by sector or by style—highlights the long-term diversification benefits of the listed equity REIT market.