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 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.
Multifamily REIT has made a $150,000 commitment to the National Urban League in 2021.
There is still a strong preference to rent rather than own among American households.
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.
Office REITs answer tenant demand for top-notch space.
On July 21, more than 300 investors, analysts, and REIT professionals attended Nareit’s webinar. Watch the recording.
Today’s property market is generally marked by supply-demand imbalances, yet not all segments of the commercial real estate market have exhibited the same levels of operational performance.
At the end of 2023, U.S. public REITs owned an estimated 580,000 properties—up 1% from the previous year—and 15 million acres of timberland across the U.S.
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.