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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Experts say it’s important for ETFs to embrace REITs, and vice versa.
REITworld will take place Dec. 8-11 in Dallas, TX. This event provides opportunities for individual meetings between REITs, investors, and analysts.
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No Fed interest rate cuts? No problem: With their disciplined balance sheets, U.S. public equity REITs may not be immune from higher interest rates, but they are reasonably well-insulated from them.
REIT earnings slowed a bit in late 2018, according to the Nareit T-Tracker®, which showed funds from operations (FFO) of all listed equity REITs of $15.9 billion.
Mergers and acquisitions involving REITs have been in the spotlight in recent months. The flurry of proposed deals announced in just the first half of this year put the market on pace to set a new record for merger activity in 2018.
Year-to-date REIT returns still outpacing broader market.
REITs have also prepared themselves for economic uncertainty by building up their stock of cash and cash-like assets and maintaining substantial unused lines of credit.
Low debt and plenty of cash have assisted Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II’s aggressive acquisitions strategy.
Nareit’s John Worth, will join two top REIT portfolio managers in an upcoming Bloomberg Intelligence webinar to discuss the impact of rising interest rates and inflation on REIT share prices.
Steven Marks of Fitch Ratings says GICS move may increase appeal of raising capital through equity issuances.
REITs supported an estimated 3.4 million fulltime equivalent (FTE) jobs in the U.S. in 2022, producing $263 billion in labor income.
Last week’s increase brought the year-to-date return to 32.0%.
Two of the biggest questions for investors for the remainder of this year will be what happens to interest rates, and how will changes in the interest rate environment affect businesses and financial markets?
Compared against broad market benchmarks, REITs outperformed the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market by 1.4 percentage points, large cap S&P 500 by 1.3 percentage points, and the small cap Russell 2000 by 4.47 percentage points in January 2020.
Plymouth invests in small properties with room for a diverse tenant mix rather than in class A buildings that typically have one big tenant.
Analysts say anticipated improvement in single-family residential sector should support performance this year.