Year-to-Date, FTSE/NAREIT All REIT Index Up 7.1%

REIT share prices came under pressure in October with concerns of rising interest rates bearing down on the market, according to analysts. However, REIT returns continued to lead the S&P 500 through the first 10 months of the year.

The total returns of the FTSE/NAREIT All REIT Index dropped 4.9 percent in October, while the S&P 500 index lost 1.8 percent.

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Poll: REITs Expected to Beat S&P 500 Index in Next Year

Real estate industry professionals expect REITs to outperform the S&P 500 Index during the next 12 months, according to a poll from BMO Capital Markets.

The poll of  attendees at the BMO Capital Markets 10th Annual North American Real Estate Conference in Chicago shows that 45 percent of institutional investors expect REITs to outperform the S&P 500 Index by more than 3 percent in the next year, while 35 percent said REITs could outperform the benchmark by as much as 10 percent.

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FTSE Group, NAREIT Launch PureProperty Index Series

FTSE Group and NAREIT have launched the FTSE NAREIT PureProperty Index Series, which provides a daily measure of U.S. real estate price and total returns at the level of both property and equity investments.

The index series’ values are based on price appreciation and income distributions generated by portfolios of properties owned by stock exchange-listed U.S. Equity REITs.

Brad Case, NAREIT’s senior vice president for research and industry information, described the new series as “potentially a watershed in institutional investment in real estate.”

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