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.
Partnerships are occurring across a range of REIT property sectors.
REITweek Investor Conference, taking place June 2-5 in New York, is the REIT industry’s largest annual gathering of executives, investors, and industry partners.
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.
Today’s economic environment has no historical precedent. What markers can we rely on as the economy and commercial real estate move into uncharted waters?
REITs were first deemed eligible for inclusion in the S&P 500 in October 2001.
Equity REITs raised $3.4 billion in the third quarter of 2019 through at-the-market programs, just shy of a record high.
In 2019, completed and pending mergers and acquisitions of U.S. REITs declined to $25.9 billion.
The FTSE Nareit U.S. Real Estate Index Series posted positive total return performance across all property sectors in 2019.
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.
A moderate supply of new buildings is helping to keep vacancy rates low and reduces risks of a market downturn due to excess construction in the months and years ahead.
From 2016 to 2018, the jobs equivalent contribution from REITs is up an estimated 19.0%.
Rising GDP and the job growth that goes with it are the most important determinants of demand for real estate, as businesses need more office space for workers and industrial space to produce, store and ship goods.
Nareit estimates 86.6 American adults, or 44% of American households, own REIT stocks directly or indirectly through mutual funds, ETFs or target date funds.
Nareit’s annual update of REIT property counts and estimated gross asset values by state and property sector is now available on the revamped REITs Across America website.
With everyday life upended by the coronavirus for the foreseeable future, the commercial real estate industry is shifting on a daily basis.
Through the year-to-date period as of the end of February, REITs outperformed the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market, the large cap S&P 500 and the small cap Russell 2000.
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The advance of the coronavirus within the United States has prompted a corresponding spread of actions aimed at slowing the pandemic. These actions will cause a noticeable reduction in GDP, but how large might it be?
Different property sectors face different exposures to the coronavirus crisis, and REIT returns reflect those differences.