NVIT Real Estate Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-26
C000059823 — NVIT Real Estate Fund. United States Real Estate · $222.84M AUM · 1.17% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000059823 Fund Overview
NVIT Real Estate Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust, categorised as United States Real Estate. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust
- Category: United States Real Estate
- Assets under management: $222.84M
- 1-year return: 19.0%
- SEC CIK: 0000353905
- SEC series ID: S000021039
- Share class ID: C000059823
C000059823 Investment Objective and Strategy
NVIT Real Estate Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Nationwide Variable Insurance Trust.
Investment objective
The NVIT Real Estate Fund seeks current income and long-term capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities of real estate companies. For these purposes, a real estate company is a company that (i) derives at least 50% of its revenues from the ownership, operation, development, construction, financing, management or sale of commercial, industrial or residential real estate and similar activities, or (ii) invests at least 50% of its net revenues in such real estate. Equity securities in which the Fund invests are primarily common stocks of companies of any size, including smaller companies, and include the securities of real estate investment trusts (REITs). Issuers of the equity securities in which the Fund invests are located primarily in the United States. The Fund does not invest in real estate directly.
The Fund is nondiversified for purposes of the Investment Company Act of 1940, which means that the Fund may hold larger positions in fewer securities than other funds. The Funds subadviser actively manages the Fund using a combination of bottom-up analysis of factors affecting individual securities and top-down analysis of the real estate market. Using multiple valuation metrics, the subadviser seeks to identify issuers evidencing short-term dislocations between stock prices and fundamentals, and ultimately invest at below-market valuations in real estate companies that the subadviser believes will be strong long-term performers. In seeking a diversified exposure to all major real estate sectors, the subadvisers top-down analysis studies macroeconomic, private real estate, industry and regional trends to influence the Funds sector and geographic weightings.
The subadviser may sell a security when it believes it has become overvalued or no longer offers an attractive risk/reward profile, relative fundamentals have deteriorated, or to take advantage of other opportunities the subadviser believes to be more attractive. The Fund may engage in active and frequent trading of portfolio securities.
C000059823 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of NVIT Real Estate Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Welltower, Inc. | 14.58% |
| Equinix, Inc. | 10.76% |
| Prologis, Inc. | 9.70% |
| Simon Property Group, Inc. | 6.68% |
| Public Storage | 4.64% |
| Essex Property Trust, Inc. | 4.49% |
| WP Carey, Inc. | 4.36% |
| Ventas, Inc. | 3.43% |
| Invitation Homes, Inc. | 3.37% |
| UDR, Inc. | 2.42% |
C000059823 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of NVIT Real Estate Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 98.8% |
C000059823 Performance
Total returns for C000059823 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 16.0% |
| 1 year | 19.0% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 11.2% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 4.3% |
C000059823 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000059823, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 14.0%
C000059823 Costs and Fees
C000059823 costs about $117 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.17%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.18%
- Portfolio turnover: 111%
- Brokerage commissions: 13.79 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000059823 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, NVIT Real Estate Fund had net outflows of $8.33M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$1.75M |
| 2026-05 | −$1.70M |
| 2026-04 | $5.42M |
| 2026-03 | −$5.80M |
| 2026-02 | $2.11M |
| 2026-01 | −$1.24M |
C000059823 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in NVIT Real Estate Fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000059823 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official NVIT Real Estate Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-16
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-17
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-18
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-23
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-09
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-05
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.