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.
Health care REITs own and manage a variety of health care related real estate and collect rent from tenants. The aging of the U.S. population is expected to provide strong demand tailwinds for health care properties.
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?
Both volatilities and correlations have come down and are now firmly within their long-term normal ranges. Estimated REIT volatilities were above 21.9% only from January 21st through February 19th, and was most recently estimated at 11.8% using data through April 15th.
CEO Angela Kleiman also sees proptech playing key role in Essex’s success.
Nareit’s Calvin Schnure says property valuations have not fallen as transaction volume has softened.
Dirk Brounen is professor of real estate economics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
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.
How lodging REITs and their competitors perform often depends on the types of audiences they want for their rooms.
REIT IR executives are proactively engaging with stakeholders as they address a range of key issues.
Valuations in the overall market have edged down 1.4% over the past three months, and are little changed year-to-date.
A new sector for real estate sounds like a prescription for lower REIT volatility and better diversification from the broader market.
Apartment, retail sectors said to be poised for growth.
Interest rate cuts are expected to provide a strong tailwind behind a positive REIT outlook.
Single-family rental REITs are solidifying their position in the residential housing sector.