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REIT industry honors Havner and Grupe with Leadership and Achievement awards.

The recently updated study provides a comprehensive review of investment allocations and actual investment performance across 12 asset groups over an 18-year period.

The Infrastructure Sector, whose equity market capitalization consists primarily of cellular phone tower companies, led the REIT market with a total return of 34.07 percent for the first eight months of 2017.

Mortgage REITs continued to lead the U.S. REIT market’s performance through the first eight months of 2017.

The new Real Estate Industry group will be segmented out of the ICB’s Financials Industry group, of which it currently is a part.

U.S. stock exchange-listed Equity REITs delivered record Funds From Operations of $15.6 billion in the second quarter of 2017, according to the NAREIT T-Tracker^®, a quarterly composite performance measure of the entire U.S. listed REIT industry. This year’s second quarter was the first in which REIT industry FFO exceeded $15 billion, and followed just three years after the REIT industry first broke the $10 billion mark in the second quarter of 2014.

Public equity offerings were primarily responsible for a significant increase in capital raised by REITs in the first seven months of 2017 compared to the same period in 2016. 

The Data Centers, Infrastructure and Manufactured Homes property segments led the REIT market’s stock market performance in the first seven months of 2017, each with total returns exceeding 20 percent.

The FTSE NAREIT All REITs Index gained 6.69 percent on a total return basis in the first seven months of 2017. Mortgage REITs continued to outperform Equity REITs and the broader equity market in the first seven months

NAREIT today named the winners of its 2017 Investor CARE Awards at its annual REITWeek investor forum in New York.