Real estate investment trusts, or REITs, give investors a way to earn income from real estate without buying, managing or financing properties themselves. REITs own or finance income-producing assets ...

Research shows REITs can beat private real estate by 2–4% yearly with less risk. Check out what investors get wrong about ...

AI is pressuring digital businesses as capital rotates from tech. Read here for highlights on 3 anti-AI real asset plays that ...

The real estate investment trust sector has grown from around 20 companies in the 1970s to 155 companies in 2025. Today REITs own about 10% of commercial real estate properties in the United States.

New CEM study shows public REITs delivered 9.72% annual returns versus 7.79% for private real estate from 1998-2023 in pension plans ...

Real Estate Investment Trusts—or REITs—were left for dead in 2025. After two straight years of underperformance, the group ...

Investors have announced plans to spend roughly $3B to take three REITs private since September. It’s a modest sum in the $1T-plus REIT market, but after more than a year of relative stagnation in the ...

For three years, a stubborn gap has persisted between appraisal cap rates for private real estate and the implied cap rate for REITs calculated off the FTSE Nareit All Equity Index. (As of the third ...

AvalonBay is one of the largest apartment landlords, with a 3.9% yield and a generally rising dividend. Realty Income is the net lease giant, offering a yield of 5.7% backed by 30 annual dividend ...