SL Green Realty Corp ( SLG ) This commercial office based REIT has bucked the overall downtrend, returning 21% over the last 52 weeks, and yields 2.84% 2. Having voraciously read Robert Allen's seminal book, Nothing Down , as a college student, I decided to purchase a duplex in what I believed was an up-and-coming part of the city. While traditional income-focused investments fail to perform in the face of looming inflationary pressures, REITs are uniquely designed to fight inflation.