The road ahead for REITs

In our podcast, Brad Case, Vice President of Research and Industry Information at NAREIT discusses how and why the REIT market has outperformed other sections of the commercial real estate market.

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Some highlights from our episode:

• REITs outperformed value-added, opportunistic, and other types of more highly-leveraged funds in the last year.
• Significant weakness in the private commercial real estate sector of the market marks an opportunity for REITs, as they are poised to acquire valuable properties at low prices.
• The bad news coming out of the commercial real estate market has largely passed for the REITs space, and REITs are now well underway with a strong recapitalization effort. 

 

"I think there is a misunderstanding of how damaging the private equity real estate model is to the ability of fund managers to make wise investment decisions."
 - Brad Case, NAREIT