Most real estate investment trusts—70 percent, according to recent industry data—voluntarily report selected environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics, often on their corporate websites. And the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requires REITs and...

With trillions of dollars in assets, including hundreds of thousands of properties in the United States alone, real estate investment trusts (REITs) are a common feature of the investing landscape.  Yet for many investors, REITs remain something of a mystery. For...

Next year marks the 60th anniversary of the law that established real estate investment trusts (REITs), allowing investors looking to pool their resources to reap the rewards of income-producing properties. REITs are designed  to allow individual investors access to...

Recently, a global investment manager with $1.3 trillion in assets under management, established a non-traded real estate investment trust to raise billions of dollars in capital to purchase commercial real estate in the United States and to hold real estate-oriented...

From a capital-raising and investor equity perspective, the alternative investment industry’s verdict on 2020 might be “it could have been worse.” The COVID-19 pandemic slowed capital formation in the late spring and early summer. But several alternative investment...