Each month, Nareit®, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts®, provides a statistical snapshot of the overall REIT market. More detailed information is available in REIT indexes. 

REIT Industry Monthly Data for Nov. 2025

Industry Size

$1.47T

FTSE Nareit All REITs equity market capitalization

$1.40T

FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs equity market capitalization

$1.26T

NYSE listed REITs equity market capitalization

  • REITs own over $4.5 trillion of commercial real estate assets, including listed and non-listed public and private Equity and Mortgage REITs
  • 196 REITs are in the FTSE Nareit All REITs Index
  • 159 REITs trade on the New York Stock Exchange

Dividends

Yield Comparison

4.28%

FTSE Nareit All REITs

3.92%

FTSE Nareit All Equity REITs

1.09%

S&P 500

  • Public listed REITs paid out approximately $66.2 billion and public non-listed REITs paid out approximately $4.3 billion in dividends during 2024.
  • By market cap-weighted average, 78 percent of the annual dividends paid by REITs qualify as ordinary taxable income, 12 percent qualify as return of capital and 9 percent qualify as long-term capital gains in 2024.

Leverage and Coverage Ratios

(Balance sheet data as of 2025: Q2)

32.9%

Debt Ratio

4.3x

Coverage Ratio

Average Daily Dollar Trading Volume

$10.8B

November 2025

$10.0B

November 2020

$5.9B

November 2015

Data as of November 28 2025, except where noted.

All data are derived from, and apply only to, listed U.S. REITs unless otherwise noted.

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