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.
CEM Benchmarking’s 2024 study also reveals allocations, returns, volatility, and risk-adjusted performance of 12 asset classes over 25-year period.
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.
For 60 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.
Local, state, and federal governments are working to encourage adaptive reuse of commercial buildings to address the nation’s housing shortage and provide opportunities for better usage of commercial space.
Following the 2008 financial crisis, the SEC expanded corporate governance disclosure rules. Karen Garnett, a member of Nareit's Best Financial Practices Council, discusses governance issues.
Three REIT executives share lessons learned from the COVID-19 crisis that will prepare them for the next black swan event.
Dividend distributions are a vital part of the REIT total return proposition. Since 1995, Nareit has worked with representatives of the Investment Company Institute (ICI) and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) to develop procedures for corporate members that are designed to facilitate the timely reporting of the required dividend distribution information while minimizing reporting discrepancies.
AGNC Investment Corp. says its business model has been validated after the mREIT survived intense market disruption earlier this year and emerged well-positioned for future growth.
Simon Stevenson is professor of real estate finance at the Henley Business School, University of Reading.
REIT returns underperformed the broader equity market in November as investors concerned with rising interest rates shifted assets out of REITs and other income-oriented investments. The shift occurred in spite of the fact that analyses by NAREIT and various investment organizations have shown that REITs typically perform well in periods of rising interest rates.
In 2024, U.S. listed REITs distributed approximately $66 billion in dividends, as reflected in Nareit’s REIT Industry Tracker.
REIT transaction activity is expected to keep accelerating in the second half of 2021.
CEO Steve Budorick says critical nature of tenants’ missions insulates REIT from work from home, corporate rightsizing.
UDR has improved the quality, margins, and diversity of its apartment assets under the leadership of CEO Tom Toomey.
EdR and its CEO Randy Churchey play a key role in remaking the student housing business.
All investing is a relative, not an absolute, game. If the stock market pops by 25 percent in one year and your fund is up 18 percent, you’re sort of a loser. If your fund gains 2 percent and the market loses 20 percent, then you’re a rock star.
On Aug. 27, nearly 200 analysts, investors, and REIT professionals attended the second webinar in Nareit’s ESG Exchange series.
In today’s investment marketplace, competition for capital is global in scope.
Two of the oldest rules on Wall Street are “Buy low, sell high,” and “Don’t fight the Fed.” While it can be difficult if not impossible to pick the highs and lows in the stock market, it is not that hard to read the Fed’s signals about future policy.