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.
No Fed interest rate cuts? No problem: With their disciplined balance sheets, U.S. public equity REITs may not be immune from higher interest rates, but they are reasonably well-insulated from them.
Real GDP rose at a 6.5% annual rate in the second quarter of 2021, and the details of the GDP report have several positive implications for the outlook for commercial real estate markets and REITs.
REIT earnings were impacted by the COVID-19 crisis in the first quarter, with funds from operation (FFO) declining 9.0% from the prior quarter, to $15.0 billion, according to the Nareit T-Tracker®.
One of the dominant themes among institutional real estate investors of the past few years has been the shift toward “alternative” property types.
Nareit’s Calvin Schnure says activity underscores health of underlying fundamentals.
Commercial property performance and valuation metrics diverge from time to time.
A few areas—travel, hotels, restaurants and bars, other recreation—were responsible for over a third of the overall economic decline in Q2, yet these categories represent just 6% of the overall U.S. economy.