VNQ - IShares US Real Estate: A Safe Buy But Not Quite A Best-In-Class REIT Fund
Background Information
In this article, I provide a short and succinct review of the iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF (IYR). I will lay out the major characteristics that I screen for and at the end, provide some comparison between IYR and several of its peers in the U.S. real estate ETF universe. As a passive index ETF investor, I am generally only concerned with the following ETF characteristics:
- Age of the fund (inception date)
- Distributions: frequency, amount, yield, and taxability
- Net Assets
- Liquidity (as measured by the average daily trading volume)
- Expense ratio