REITs continued to recover in December with a solid +3.48% average total return, but still finished the year in the red and suffered losses in 7 out of 12 months of 2020.

The REIT sector has now achieved gains in only 4 of the first 11 months of 2020, with a 22.2% total return in November Micro cap (+29.22%) and small-cap REITs (+27.91%) surged in November, while large caps (+9.14%) saw smaller gains Only 89.44% of REIT securities had...

With October’s -2.69% average total return, the REIT sector has now seen monthly losses in 7 of the first 10 months of 2020. Year-to-date REITs have now lost an average of -26.50%.

With September’s -4.82% average total return, the REIT sector has now seen monthly losses in 6 of the first 9 months of 2020. Year-to-date REITs have now lost an average of -24.93%. The REIT sector outperformed the NASDAQ (-8.71%) but underperformed the S&P 500 (-3.92%) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (-2.28%) in September.

After suffering losses in five of the first seven months of the year, the REIT sector bounced back in August, averaging a +3.16% total return.