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Real Estate

REIT funds — equity stakes in real-estate operating companies. Tax-inefficient in a taxable account because REIT distributions are mostly ordinary income (the 199A deduction recovers some of it but not all).

8 funds in the catalog. Scored using methodology v0.5.2. · Read the guide

Top score

SCHH 80 / 100

Schwab U.S. REIT ETF

Cheapest

SCHH 0.070%

Schwab U.S. REIT ETF

Largest by AUM

VNQ $69.46B†

Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares

All Real Estate funds

Score Ticker Name AUM
80 SCHH Schwab U.S. REIT ETF $11.04B
77 XLRE State Street Real Estate Select Sector SPDR ETF $8.21B
76 VNQ Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund ETF Shares $69.46B†
76 USRT iShares Core U.S. REIT ETF $4.29B
71 FREL Fidelity MSCI Real Estate Index ETF $1.40B
64 RWR State Street SPDR Dow Jones REIT ETF $1.82B
64 IYR iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF $4.03B
48 REZ iShares Residential and Multisector Real Estate ETF $804.6M

† Whole fund: this ETF is one share class of a fund that also sells mutual-fund shares, and the figure covers all of them. Our sources don't report the ETF class on its own.

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Methodology v0.5.2. See /methodology/ for every threshold and weight used to score these funds.