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Multifamily markets rebounded in the first quarter with the second-highest quarterly demand growth on record, according to data recently released by CoStar.

REITs in the United States supported 3.5 million jobs in 2023.

The business closures and social distancing designed to slow the spread of COVID-19 had a significant impact on demand for commercial real estate, vacancies and rent growth across the major property sectors.

Historically, when REIT dividend yields became high relative to the yields on other income-oriented investments, that has usually been a sign that REITs had become undervalued and were likely to perform strongly over the next several years.

The U.S. commercial real estate market is amid an uncoupling. Property operational performance has generally been strong for both public and private real estate, but valuation metrics and total returns have diverged.

Here’s a comment that was much more common when I started this job in 2006 than it is today: exchange-traded equity REITs, people used to say, are essentially “just small-cap value stocks,” implying that they didn’t offer any significant diversification benefit that you couldn’t get simply by holding a mutual fund or ETF focused on the small-cap value segment of the stock market.

Single Family Home Rental REITs have established themselves as long-term players providing additional housing options at a time when the housing market continues to recover. 

Nareit estimates 86.6 American adults, or 44% of American households, own REIT stocks directly or indirectly through mutual funds, ETFs or target date funds.

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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.

Commercial real estate markets maintained momentum through the end of 2018, as net absorption continued at a high level across major property types.

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A recent Nareit market commentary highlighted that the “ostrich effect,” an investor behavior where risky situations are avoided by pretending that they do not exist, may aptly describe the attitudes of many private institutional real estate investment managers and appraisers when it comes to their valuation practices.

In the third quarter of 2022, the FTSE Nareit All Equity Index and NCREIF Fund Index–Open End Diversified Core Equity posted rolling four-quarter total returns of -16.3% and 22.1%, respectively.

During this period of divergent public and private property valuations, the commercial real estate mortgage market has been marked by higher interest rates and stricter underwriting standards.

Roughly 44% of American households are invested in REIT stocks.