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.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended and Developed Indexes each rose 1.8% in the first month of 2025, led by industrial, timberland, and health care.
Alok Singh of RealFoundations discusses new research on REITs' sustainability platforms.
See how Nareit member companies are working to minimize disruption caused by COVID-19.
Nareit tracks quarterly investment holdings for the 27 largest actively managed real estate investment funds focusing on REIT investment for insight on expert investor sentiment.
REITs posted positive returns to begin 2025 as the FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs Index rose 1.0% in January.
Newsweek and global data research firm Statista narrowed list from 2,000 public companies to 300.
A new sector for real estate sounds like a prescription for lower REIT volatility and better diversification from the broader market.
Analysts point to increasing confidence in economy and sound fundamentals.
Space market fundamentals can differ markedly across property types
First quarter REIT performance, early second quarter performance, and how REITs are positioned amid current market volatility was the focus of the April 8 webinar, “FTSE Nareit US Real Estate Indexes in Review & What’s Next.”
Real estate markets softened in the first quarter, with the demand for leased space slowing for most major property types. Demand did not fall but the weakness may reflect a cautious environment during the winter months.
The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Extended Index rose 2.8% in February and was up 4.6% on a year-to-date basis at month-end.
The yield spread to Treasuries as of the end of 2016 was in the bullish part of its historic range—and if a wide variety of estimates of the past relationship between spreads and forward-looking returns continues to hold, that currently bullish spread would suggest relatively bullish future total returns for investors in exchange-traded Equity REITs.
REITs have helped shape communities and the real estate investment landscape for the past six decades.