CEM Benchmarking publishes a comprehensive look at realized investment performance across asset classes over a 20-year period, 1998-2017, that demonstrates that REITs outperformed private real estate by an average of 2.8% per year.
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CEM Benchmarking publishes a comprehensive look at realized investment performance across asset classes over a 20-year period, 1998-2017, that demonstrates that REITs outperformed private real estate by an average of 2.8% per year.