Best real estate stocks (REITs)

Simon Property Group is America's largest mall owner, holding the premium malls and outlets that survived the retail apocalypse: the luxury centers people still visit.

Realty Income calls itself 'The Monthly Dividend Company': a REIT owning thousands of retail properties on long leases (pharmacies, groceries, gyms), paying a monthly dividend for decades.

VICI Properties owns the walls of Las Vegas: Caesars Palace, the Venetian, the MGM Grand and dozens more casinos, leased to their operators on decades-long, inflation-linked contracts.

American Tower is a REIT that owns hundreds of thousands of telecom towers worldwide.

Public Storage is the king of American self-storage: thousands of orange facilities where millions of households keep what doesn't fit.

JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) is the world's second big real-estate consultancy after CBRE: office and warehouse brokerage, building management and property investment for institutions.

Prologis is the world's largest owner of logistics warehouses: the buildings e-commerce ships from.

Digital Realty is one of the internet's great landlords: hundreds of data centers worldwide leased to clouds, enterprises and now the AI wave.

Equinix is the interconnection data-center REIT: its facilities are the points where the world's networks meet (clouds, carriers, enterprises).

CBRE is the world's largest commercial real-estate firm: it brokers office and warehouse sales and leases, manages other people's buildings and runs entire facilities for multinationals.