Best REITs to Invest In

CareTrust REIT, Inc.

Symbol: CTRE
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Mid-Cap
REIT Sector: Health Care
REITRating™: 9.7

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About REIT: CareTrust REIT, Inc. is a self-administered, publicly traded real estate investment trust engaged in the ownership, acquisition, development and leasing of skilled nursing, seniors housing and other healthcare-related properties. With a nationwide portfolio of long-term net-leased properties, and a growing portfolio of quality operators leasing them, CareTrust REIT is pursuing both external and organic growth opportunities across the United States.

Terreno Realty Corp.

Symbol: TRNO
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Mid-Cap
REIT Sector: Industrial
REITRating™: 9.4

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About REIT: Terreno Realty Corporation (NYSE: TRNO), a San Francisco-based public real estate investment trust acquires, owns and operates industrial real estate in six major U.S. coastal markets: Los Angeles, Northern New Jersey/New York City, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Miami, and Washington, D.C. We acquire functional, flexible properties in infill locations near major population centers and transportation infrastructure.

Essential Properties Realty Trust Inc

Symbol: EPRT
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Mid-Cap
REIT Sector: Retail
REITRating™: 8.8

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About REIT: Essential Properties is a privately held real estate operating company based in Princeton, NJ, that owns, acquires, and manages single-tenant net lease (STNL) properties. By utilizing sale-leaseback transactions, Essential provides growth capital to middle-market companies with attractive credit profiles and stable operating histories. Essential primarily targets tenants that operate service-oriented and experience-based businesses including: Restaurants; Car Washes and Automotive Services; Convenience Stores and Gas Stations; Medical, Dental, and Veterinarian Services; Early Childhood Education; Movie Theaters and Entertainment; Health and Fitness, and others.

Regency Centers Corporation

Symbol: REG
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Large-Cap
REIT Sector: Retail
REITRating™: 8.6

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About REIT: Regency Centers is the preeminent national owner, operator, and developer of shopping centers located in affluent and densely populated trade areas. Our portfolio includes thriving properties merchandised with highly productive grocers, restaurants, service providers, and best-in-class retailers that connect to their neighborhoods, communities, and customers. Operating as a fully integrated real estate company, Regency Centers is a qualified real estate investment trust (REIT) that is self-administered, self-managed, and an S&P 500 Index member.

AMH

Symbol: AMH
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Large-Cap
REIT Sector: Residential
REITRating™: 8.4

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About REIT: AMH (NYSE: AMH), previously known as American Homes 4 Rent, is a leading single-family property owner, leasing operator and build-to-rent developer. We're an internally managed Maryland real estate investment trust (REIT) focused on acquiring, developing, renovating, leasing and managing homes as rental properties. Our goal is to simplify the experience of leasing a home and deliver peace of mind to households across the country. In recent years, we've been named one of Fortune's 2022 Best Workplaces in Real Estate™, a 2022 Great Place to Work®, a 2022 Top U.S. Homebuilder by Builder100, one of America's Most Responsible Companies 2023 and America's Most Trusted Companies 2022 by Newsweek and Statista, and a Top ESG Regional Performer by Sustainalytics. As of September 30, 2022, we owned nearly 59,000 single-family properties in the Southeast, Midwest, Southwest and Mountain West regions of the United States.

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

Symbol: MAA
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Large-Cap
REIT Sector: Residential
REITRating™: 8.4

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About REIT: MAA (NYSE: MAA) is an S&P 500 company and real estate investment trust (REIT), focused on delivering full-cycle and superior investment performance for shareholders through the ownership, management, acquisition, development and redevelopment of quality apartment communities. With an investment portfolio that is uniquely balanced and diversified across the high growth Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S., MAA has successfully navigated numerous business cycles, captured significant growth and built an efficient, technology-driven operating platform. Supported by a strong, investment-grade balance sheet, the company has paid 98 consecutive quarterly common dividends and delivered a long-term return to shareholders that has consistently ranked in the top-tier of performances within the overall REIT sector. As of June 30, 2018, MAA had ownership interest in 101,362 apartment homes, including those in communities under development, across 17 states and the District of Columbia.

Global Self Storage, Inc.

Symbol: SELF
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Micro-Cap
REIT Sector: Self Storage
REITRating™: 8.4

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About REIT: Global Self Storage, Inc. (Ticker: SELF) (the "Company") is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust ("REIT") focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition, development and redevelopment of self storage facilities in the United States. Our self storage facilities are designed to offer affordable, easily accessible and secure storage space for residential and commercial customers. The Company currently owns and operates, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, eleven self storage properties located in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and South Carolina.

Getty Realty Corp.

Symbol: GTY
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Small-Cap
REIT Sector: Retail
REITRating™: 8.4

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About REIT: Getty Realty Corp. (NYSE: GTY) is a publicly traded, net lease REIT specializing in the acquisition, financing and development of convenience, automotive and other single tenant retail real estate. As of September 30, 2024, the Company's portfolio included 1,108 properties in 42 states across the United States plus Washington, D.C.

Equity Residential

Symbol: EQR
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Large-Cap
REIT Sector: Residential
REITRating™: 8.3

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About REIT: Equity Residential is committed to creating communities where people thrive. The Company, a member of the S&P 500, is focused on the acquisition, development and management of residential properties located in and around dynamic cities that attract affluent long-term renters. Equity Residential owns or has investments in 312 properties consisting of 84,018 apartment units, with an established presence in Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Seattle, San Francisco and Southern California, and an expanding presence in Denver, Atlanta, Dallas/Ft. Worth and Austin. We are building value for our shareholders, residents and employees by combining the resources of a large company and a national presence with strong local management and expertise. Shares of the company are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, EQR.

Acadia Realty Trust

Symbol: AKR
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Mid-Cap
REIT Sector: Retail
REITRating™: 8.2

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About REIT: Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE:AKR) is an equity real estate investment trust focused on delivering long-term, profitable growth via its dual “core and opportunity fund“ platforms. Our energized team is accomplishing this goal by building a best-in-class, location-driven core real estate portfolio with meaningful concentrations of assets in the nation's most dynamic urban and street-retail corridors, including those in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, and Boston. At the same time, we are amplifying this portfolio's solid growth by making highly-profitable opportunistic and value-add investments through our series of discretionary, institutional funds. For the trailing 15-year period ended December 31, 2014, Acadia's stock achieved a cumulative total return of 1,388%, placing our company among the industry's top-performing shopping center REITs.

Easterly Government Properties, Inc.

Symbol: DEA
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Small-Cap
REIT Sector: Office
REITRating™: 8.2

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About REIT: Easterly Government Properties, Inc. (NYSE:DEA) is based in Washington, D.C., and focuses primarily on the acquisition, development and management of Class A commercial properties that are leased to the U.S. Government. Easterly's experienced management team brings specialized insight into the strategy and needs of mission-critical U.S. Government agencies for properties leased primarily through the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA).

Urban Edge Properties

Symbol: UE
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Mid-Cap
REIT Sector: Retail
REITRating™: 8.2

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About REIT: Urban Edge Properties is a New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate investment trust that acquires, owns, redevelops, and manages shopping centers in some of the most densely populated, supply-constrained markets in the country.

Global Medical REIT, Inc.

Symbol: GMRE
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Small-Cap
REIT Sector: Health Care
REITRating™: 8.2

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About REIT: Global Medical REIT Inc. is a Maryland corporation engaged primarily in the acquisition of licensed, state-of-the-art, purpose-built healthcare facilities and the leasing of these facilities to leading clinical operators with dominant market share. We take a dogged approach to investing and look at opportunities and markets that others don’t. Our strategy is bolstered by favorable demographic trends and the shift in healthcare delivery to local markets and the smaller, specialized facilities we invest in. Our principal business objective is to provide attractive risk-adjusted returns to our stockholders through a combination of sustainable and increasing rental income that allows us to pay reliable dividends and potential long-term appreciation in the value of our healthcare facilities and common stock.

Broadstone Net Lease, Inc.

Symbol: BNL
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Mid-Cap
REIT Sector: Industrial Health Care Office Retail
REITRating™: 8.2

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About REIT: Established in 2007, Broadstone (NYSE: BNL) is an industrial-focused, diversified net lease REIT that acquires, owns, and manages primarily single-tenant commercial real estate across several core property types, including industrial, healthcare, restaurants, retail, and office. We focus on establishing long-standing relationships with creditworthy tenants who occupy properties with strong real estate fundamentals.

Realty Income Corp

Symbol: O
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Large-Cap
REIT Sector: Retail Industrial Office Specialty
REITRating™: 8.2

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About REIT: Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company®, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats® index. For more than five decades, we have invested in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a REIT, and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 11,700 real estate properties owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients. To date, the company has declared 631 consecutive common stock monthly dividends throughout its 54-year operating history and increased the dividend 118 times since Realty Income's public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O).

Chatham Lodging Trust

Symbol: CLDT
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Small-Cap
REIT Sector: Hotel Resorts
REITRating™: 8.2

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About REIT: Chatham Lodging Trust is a self-advised, publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) focused primarily on investing in upscale, extended-stay hotels and premium-branded, select-service hotels. Our high-quality hotels are located in major markets with high barriers to entry, near primary demand generators for both business and leisure travelers. Our primary objective is to generate attractive returns for our shareholders through investing in hotel properties at prices that provide strong returns on invested capital, paying meaningful dividends, and generating long-term value appreciation. The company owns 37 hotels totaling 5,596 rooms/suites in 16 states and the District of Columbia.

NetSTREIT Corp.

Symbol: NTST
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Small-Cap
REIT Sector: Retail
REITRating™: 8.1

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About REIT: NETSTREIT Corporation is a publicly traded real estate investment company that acquires, owns and manages a diversified portfolio of single-tenant, net lease retail commercial real estate with high credit quality tenants across the United States. Our growth and diversification strategy focuses on tenants in industries where a physical location is critical to the generation of sales and profits, with a focus on necessity goods and essential services in the retail sector. NETSTREIT is driven to serve the best interests of our investors by maximizing stockholder value while generating attractive risk-adjusted returns

UDR Inc.

Symbol: UDR
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Large-Cap
REIT Sector: Residential
REITRating™: 8.1

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About REIT: For more than 50 years, UDR (which has also been known over the years as United Dominion Realty Trust® and United Dominion Residential Communities) has focused on providing distinctive, high-quality apartment homes paired with exemplary service and amenities. Our apartment communities are situated in some of the country’s most desirable locations, from New York’s Upper West Side to San Francisco’s Mission Bay District, and hundreds of great neighborhoods in between. Places that have it all: First-rate shopping, superb restaurants, lively nightlife options, access to thriving business centers. And—best of all—a beautiful apartment in a one-of-a-kind community setting to call your own.

Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.

Symbol: OHI
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Large-Cap
REIT Sector: Health Care
REITRating™: 8.1

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About REIT: Omega Healthcare Investors is a triple-net, equity REIT (NYSE: OHI) that supports the goals of Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) and Assisted Living Facility (ALF) operators with financing and capital. We're partners with over 75 of the most future-focused, growth-oriented operators in the U.S. and U.K., accelerating their growth strategies with a $1.25 billion unsecured credit facility and proven access to the largest public equity and debt markets in the world.

Extra Space Storage, Inc.

Symbol: EXR
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Large-Cap
REIT Sector: Self Storage
REITRating™: 8.1

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About REIT: Extra Space Storage Inc., headquartered in Salt Lake City, is a fully integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. As of December 31, 2016, the Company owned and/or operated 1,427 self-storage properties in 38 states, Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. The Company's properties comprise approximately 960,000 units and approximately 107 million square feet of rentable storage space offering customers conveniently located and secure storage units across the country, including boat storage, RV storage and business storage. The Company is the second largest owner and/or operator of self-storage properties in the United States and is the largest self-storage management company in the United States.

Four Corners Property Trust, Inc.

Symbol: FCPT
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Mid-Cap
REIT Sector: Retail
REITRating™: 8.1

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About REIT: In November 2015, FCPT (NYSE: FCPT) was spun out of Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) as an independent, publicly-traded real estate investment trust. Since that transaction, FCPT has grown steadily while maintaining one of the highest quality net-leased portfolios in the industry. FCPT continues to expand its national footprint, focusing on the long term, creating continued value for its shareholders, and investing in its people.

Phillips Edison & Company, Inc.

Symbol: PECO
Type of REIT: Equity REIT
Listing Status: Public
Market Capitalization: Mid-Cap
REIT Sector: Retail
REITRating™: 8.0

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About REIT: Phillips Edison & Company has a 30-year track record of creating value for its investors. PECO’s differentiated strategy, fully-integrated operating platform, and locally smart leasing and management continue to drive its strong results. This unique approach has proven to optimize the value of PECO’s grocery-anchored shopping centers through multiple real estate and economic cycles.