Large REITs overweight gaming, healthcare, telecom, among others — Nareit

Residential properties had the biggest share of large actively actively managed real estate investment funds focused on real estate investment trusts, 17.6% of assets under management, as of June 30, based on data collected by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts of large actively managed REITs. That’s down from 22.7% a year ago, however.

Telecommunication properties increased 2.7 percentage points during this span, reaching 14.2% of assets. Healthcare properties were 13.6% of AUM, up 2.1 percentage points.

The funds overweighted gaming, healthcare, telecommunications, residential and data center properties vs. the FTSE Nareit All Equity index. They underweighted diversified, lodging/resorts, office, timberland, self-storage and retail properties while matching the index's industrial and specialty properties' weighting.