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.
Read the recap of this year's REITwise, and save the date for Nareit's REITwise: 2019 Law, Accounting & Finance Conference.
For REIT investors 2017 turned out to be a very normal year—but that was a huge disappointment given the “irrational exuberance” that investors in some other parts of the stock market enjoyed. So how can we develop empirically-based REIT return expectations for 2018?
Buoyed by strong balance sheets, REITs SHOULD continue to grow by acquisition in 2013, recycling capital along the way, investment bankers say.
Investment bankers say public real estate companies are in a strong competitive position as the economic recovery gains steam.
The REIT industry always has been a marketplace in motion. That ongoing change is highlighted in this issue, especially by the story commemorating the 50th anniversary of the FTSE Nareit Indexes.
Investors increasingly view REITs as a fundamental part of their portfolios.
Opening Doors to REITs in China and India.
Institutional investors reevaluating role of REITs in retirement portfolios.
REITs are getting good grades for their corporate governance, and companies are using strong ratings to their advantage versus competitors. Observers say even more can be done across the industry.
New research indicates that pension funds would have benefitted from increasing their allocations to stock exchange-listed Equity REITs.
A look at how operating partnership units changed (and continue to shape) REITs and real estate investment.
Bi-monthly thoughts from NAREIT's Chairman.
REITs have helped shape communities and the real estate investment landscape for the past six decades.
REITs are finding less is more when it comes to leverage.
REITs using cost of capital advantage.
The three authors of the study, Tom Arnold, David Ling, and Andy Naranjo spoke with REIT magazine about their research findings and the ramifications for public and private real estate investors.