Equity REITs Run Circles Around S&P 500

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA-Equity REITs keep the real estate industry ahead of the investment game in the first quarter of the year by outperforming the S&P 500 by nearly 4.5%. Retail REITs scored the best for the first three months of 2003, showing a 7.7% return increase.

By Barbra Murray | April 03, 2003 at 01:01 AM

SNL has concluded that retail REITs are responsible for the sector's superior numbers. With a 7.7% increase, retail REITs led the group, while hotel REITs pulled up the rear with an 18.3% decline.

"Investors have priced into REIT stocks their expectations regarding current property market fundamentals," SNL senior analyst and editor for Real Estate Securities Keith Pomroy explains. "The key variable for all property markets is now the Iraq war's effect on the US economy."

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