DRW News and Press, WisdomTree Global ex-US Real Estate Fund From 05/16/19

Vancouver prices drop. Toronto down 3.7% from peak, flat for 10 months. Winnipeg plunges most since at least 1990. Quebec City flat for six years. In Greater Vancouver, BC, Canada, house prices fell 0.4% in April from March, the ninth month in a row of month-to-month declines, according to...

"It is their interaction with froth that matters most. How much a housing market adjusts depends on how much froth there is": Poloz Across Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, sales of all types of homes so far this year through April plunged to 6,212 homes, the lowest count since 1986, ...

Can Australia's Housing Bust Morph Into A Financial Crisis? As the housing bust in Australia progresses in its methodical manner, will it trigger a mortgage crisis that hits the big four banks, and the remainder of Australia's financial system to the point where there's a banking panic and...

Danielle was a guest with Kerry Lutz on The Financial Survival Network, talking about recent developments in the world economy and markets. You can listen to an audio clip of the segment by clicking on the Play button below: Disclosure: No positions. Editor’s Note: The summ...

It has been almost one year since we initiated our first short position in Canada and made known our skepticism of the Canadian housing market (er, bubble) to our investors. Today we look upon the past year's worth of data to see how things have progressed and examine the key metrics we follow...

Low-interest rates, lax-lending and speculative fever drove a boom in property demand, size and opulence over the past decade in most of the world's major cities. Now home prices are unaffordable for most and debt is maxed out everywhere, just as aging owners are looking to cash out and lower ...

KKR's Henry McVey, who heads global macro and asset allocation, favors real estate in his report "The Uncomfortable Truth." More news on: Alpine Global Premier Properties Fund, Cohen&Steers Infrastructure Fund, Vanguard Global ex-U.S. Real Estate ETF, Financial stocks news, News on t...

The largest headwind for Canadian households, lenders and the economy in 2019-20 is the same force that worked as a tailwind in the decade before: real estate. Naturally, the leaders of the boom years -the greater Vancouver and Toronto areas - are now also leading the deflation cycle. And a po...

By Steve Shigekawa, Senior Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group, Brian Jones, Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group, Anton Kwang, Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group, and Gillian Tiltman, Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group Think listed real estate is dull, defensive and exposed to rising rates?...

By Greg Kuhl, CFA & Guy Barnard, CFA & Tim Gibson Tim Gibson, Guy Barnard and Greg Kuhl, Portfolio Managers for the Global Property Equities strategy, discuss how REITs can provide a way to capitalize on aging populations. The "silver tsunami" metaphor is frequently used to descr...