Retail REITs Data for Market Researchers: 4 Ranked Sources

We rank for research utility rather than breadth: two relevance-3 records define the demand side and the operating side, one relevance-2 trade-association page frames the listed universe, and one relevance-1 screener counts it. The slice covers four distinct research layers: national retail demand from the Census Bureau, sector operating performance from Nareit's quarterly tracker, the constituent list from Nareit's retail sector page, and the exchange-level universe from Nasdaq. Sector context sits on the retail-reits data hub.

All four qualifying records, ranked for market-sizing work: relevance to the persona first, then Datadory's 0-10 quality score. Two carry top relevance 3; one frames sector structure at relevance 2; one is a supporting utility at relevance 1. 1. Quote sector-level occupancy and same-store NOI trends in client decks on retail property health. 2. Size US retail categories at NAICS detail and benchmark client revenue against national sales totals. 3. Enumerate the listed shopping-center, mall and net-lease players when mapping sector structure. 4. Count listed companies per industry segment when describing market structure.

Census Advance Monthly Retail Sales Report (PDF/Data Tables) is the demand-side anchor. Estimates come from a stratified random sample of roughly 4,800 employer firms weighted to represent more than three million retail and food services firms, benchmarked to the Annual Retail Trade Survey, and the historical archive reaches back to October 1953 across 848 PDFs.

Nareit T-Tracker Quarterly Operating Performance is the operating-side anchor, and the deeper source at quality 9.

Nareit Retail REIT Sector Directory enumerates the sector: Nareit states there are currently 29 retail REITs on the FTSE Nareit US Real Estate Indexes, and its table lists roughly 29-30 rows with ticker, headquarters and sector label (Acadia Realty Trust AKR | Rye United States | Retail), one-year total return and stock price. The page describes the segments covered - large regional malls, outlet centers, grocery-anchored shopping centers, power centers anchored by big-box retailers, and net lease REITs - and expandable blocks add FTSE dividend yield and returns plus CoStar-sourced net absorption, completions, performance occupancy and rent growth.

NASDAQ Stock Screener API verifies that universe from the exchange side without a key: download=true returned all 7,086 listed securities (~2.2 MB) on August 21, 2026, and filtering sector=real_estate yields 284 rows whose 'Real Estate Investment Trusts' industry holds 226 constituents. Because no dedicated retail-REIT industry code exists, isolate the retail players - Simon Property Group (SPG), Regency Centers, Realty Income, Agree Realty, Acadia Realty and CBL Properties among them - by name matching, then cite the directory as the canonical count.