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.
Nareit's John Worth along with Brandon Benjamin of Brookfield Asset Management will discuss the performance for the second quarter of 2025 and upcoming trends.
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.
Modeled after mutual funds, REITs historically have provided investors of all types regular income streams, diversification and long-term capital appreciation. Investors can purchase stock in equity REITs and mortgage REITs. Equity REITs own properties in a variety of real estate sectors, such as retail, office and residential.
A REIT or real estate investment trust, is a company that owns, operates or finances income-producing real estate. Modeled after mutual funds, REITs historically have provided investors with regular income streams, diversification, and long-term capital appreciation. Most REITs are public companies that trade on major stock exchanges, but other types of REITs are available to investors.
Most REITs operate as equity REITs, providing investors with the opportunity to invest in portfolios of income-producing real estate. These companies own properties in a range of real estate sectors that are leased to tenants, such as office buildings, shopping centers, apartment complexes and more. They are required to distribute a minimum of 90% of their income to shareholders in the form of dividends.
Analysts say anticipated improvement in single-family residential sector should support performance this year.
Following the challenges of 2020, leading real estate fund managers expect REITs to benefit from improving fundamentals in 2021.
While valuations are somewhat different across different segments of the REIT industry, there is a “wealth of undervaluation” in REITs today—and investors certainly should be paying closer attention.
The Nareit universe of REIT indexes is growing and evolving to match an expanding industry and increased demand for data.
Leading REIT analysts review the outlook for the data center, health care, industrial, infrastructure, lodging, multifamily, office, retail, self-storage, and timber real estate sectors.
REIT transaction activity is expected to keep accelerating in the second half of 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.
Potlatch Corp. finds its niche with a return to "a simple timberland and solid wood products manufacturing structure."
APG has a global strategy for building and managing a portfolio that offers predictable dividends and grows in value over the long term.
REIT magazine asked a range of analysts to assess current conditions and offer insight into how the rest of 2022 could shape up.
REITs and publicly-listed real estate around the world were hit hard by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, but have generally rebounded strongly.
In addition to sustainable forestry, Weyerhaeuser’s new CEO Devin Stockfish is focused on culture and employee development to build value for all of the REIT’s stakeholders.
New companies in new sectors with new business models are joining the REIT club. Profiling four of the REIT industry's newest members.