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Financial markets continue to face the headwinds of tightening monetary policy and inflationary pressures driven by food and energy prices.
Many analysts have noted that increasing construction and high prices on commercial properties often presage a downturn in the sector, and have asked whether this cycle may be approaching the 9th inning. NAREIT research economists have examined data from several sources to shed further light on the risks that the sector may be approaching a correction.
On a year-to-date basis, the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index is up 3.5% and the FTSE Nareit Equity REITs Index is up 5.4%.
Change will again be a major theme in our industry in the coming year.
REIT IR professionals offer insight into what it takes to keep their companies in touch with the investment community.
Timber, office, and data centers led with returns of 15.9%, 10.4%, and 7.3%, respectively.
NAREIT is disappointed with the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s final Federal Home Loan Bank membership rule excluding captive insurers from membership. We note that the FHFA acknowledged a well-known fact, that “mortgage real estate investment trusts (REITs) play an important role in the residential mortgage market.”
Historically, REITs have performed well during periods of rising long-term interest rates with average four-quarter return in periods with rising rates of 16.55% compared to 10.68% in non-rising rate periods from the first quarter of 1992 to the fourth quarter of 2021.
As the visibility of the industry increases in the wake of Equity REITs moving into the new GICS Real Estate Sector, that aspect of REIT-based real estate investment will take on even greater importance.
The overall composite price index in March stood 7.9 percent above one year earlier. This increase represents an acceleration of price gains from those during most of 2017, to the most rapid pace since 2016.
New indices introduced by Green Street allow us for the first time to compare property price performance to total returns for property types outside of the traditional core REIT sectors.
VICI Properties, and other investors, see the city as an odds-on favorite in continuing to attract visitors—despite the pandemic’s challenges.
In 2021 REIT capital market activity has been highlighted by the announcement of eleven REIT mergers.
Disappointing earnings from the some of the largest companies outside of the REIT space weighed heavily on REITs at the close of the month.
From online meetings and teleconferences, to e-commerce shopping and streaming movies at home—not to mention old-fashioned phone calls and text messages—Americans rely on the digital realm to get work done, to stay connected, and to be entertained.