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.
The REIT Industry Sustainability Report 2024 includes industry trends, REIT sustainability reporting data and analysis, as well as useful information on the publicly traded U.S. REIT industry’s primary sustainability, social responsibility, and governance practices.
REITs directly employed an estimated 331,000 FTE employees who earned $31.1 billion of labor income in the U.S.
At the end of 2023, U.S. public REITs owned an estimated 580,000 properties—up 1% from the previous year—and 15 million acres of timberland across the U.S.
REITworld 2024, scheduled for Nov. 18-21 in Las Vegas, NV, will bring together REIT management teams, investors, and analysts for topical sessions, one-on-one meetings, and networking.
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.
Timber, office, and data centers led with returns of 15.9%, 10.4%, and 7.3%, respectively.
Year-long academic contest sees 15 teams vying for $50,000 scholarship.
Residential REITs adapt to the evolution of how people live.
David Veal, chief investment officer for City of Austin Employee's Retirement System, recently spoke with REIT magazine on topics including COAERS' strategy and the changing role of real estate in the portfolio.
Charles Duhigg discusses his book, The Power of Habit, and the opportunities that we all have daily to turn bad habits into habits of success.
As the national economy strengthens, REITs stand to make major gains in 2014.
Spurred on by attractive financing and solid returns, health care REITs continue their aggressive pursuit of senior housing properties.
The path of the pandemic and the vaccines will continue to hold the keys for the economy and commercial real estate, and for stock markets, in 2021.
David Rosenberg is chief economist and strategist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc. He joined Gluskin Sheff in 2009 after serving as chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch in New York for seven years.
Analysts say mREITs provide investors the opportunity to increase portfolio yield.
Fibra Educa expects increased need for educational infrastructure in years ahead.
Local, state, and federal governments are working to encourage adaptive reuse of commercial buildings to address the nation’s housing shortage and provide opportunities for better usage of commercial space.
REITs and broad market equities faced challenges in August, as the sharply rising 10-year Treasury yield hit 4.34%, its highest level since 2007, and then declined to 4.09% in the final week of the month.
For nearly two decades, Merrie Frankel has been a familiar face around the REIT industry as a REIT analyst with Moody’s Investors Service. She decided in the fall that she was ready for a change.
U.S. REITs raised $2.5 billion from secondary debt and equity offerings in the fourth quarter of 2022, down from $8.6 billion raised in Q3.