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.
REITs delivered strong investment performance through mid-year 2026, outperforming the broad equity market by a sizable margin.
The REIT industry's premier annual conference, bringing together leaders for networking, one-on-one meetings, and insights shaping the year ahead.
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.
In 2021, REITs outperformed the S&P 500 by 12.6 percentage points with an annual return of 41.3%.
REIT industry and sector performance for the fourth quarter of 2025 was the focus of the Jan. 13 webinar, “FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Indexes in Review & What’s Next.”
Economic fundamentals support market on long-term basis.
Citi’s Michael Bilerman recently spoke with REIT magazine on issues ranging from real estate cap rates and valuations, to the importance of asking difficult questions.
CEM has collaborated with Nareit for 10 years on pension fund performance, allocation research.
Neithercut, a former NAREIT chair, discussed some of the factors behind Equity Residential’s achievements, the current outlook for the multifamily industry and the importance of having passion for your work.
Only stock exchange-listed REITs provide the diversification the vast majority of individual investors want and need.
Investment bankers discuss real estate capital market drivers for 2016.
Dirk Brounen is professor of real estate economics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
Bi-monthly thoughts from NAREIT's Chairman.
The ESG JumpStart Workshop: 2021 Webinar Series, open exclusively to Nareit corporate members, will provide the opportunity to learn from the experience of peers and subject matter experts who have successfully developed and initiated an ESG program for a REIT.
The price-to-NAV spread estimated at the end of 2016 suggests that total returns on exchange-traded Equity REITs would average about 13.6% per year over the next five years.
The path of the pandemic and the vaccines will continue to hold the keys for the economy and commercial real estate, and for stock markets, in 2021.
Nareit’s REITwise 2025: Law, Accounting & Finance Conference convened nearly 1,100 real estate executives and REIT industry professionals March 25-27 in San Antonio, Texas.