EWRE News and Press, Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight Real Estate From 08/22/22

We can’t actually see the present because there is a lag between the information being captured by our eyes and processed by our brains. The rising dollar, rising rate environment are well known and entrenched at this point. There are still some problems we have to get past...

U.S. equity markets failed to extend their weekly winning streak as hawkish commentary from Fed officials sparked renewed pressure on bonds and sent benchmark interest rates back to four-week highs. Following a four-week rally that had erased over half of the benchmark's year-to-date ...

What are the odds of a recession? What are the risks that inflation will stay elevated? How are housing markets evolving in a rising rate environment? From the risk of a recession, to the stickiness of inflation, to the prospects for the housing market, TD Econom...

Existing home sales continued their historic plunge in July to reach the lowest level in 7 years outside of COVID, down roughly 1.7 million home sales in just the last six months. Further discouraging news came from the Conference Board who posted that the July annual rate of change i...

Excluding the lockdown recession, sales are at their lowest since November 2015. Sales in the market for existing single-family homes, which account for about 89 percent of total existing-home sales, dropped 5.5 percent in July, coming in at a 4.31 million seasonally adjusted annual r...

Data Center REITs have become "battleground" stocks this year after short-selling firm Chanos & Company launched a fund that will bet against data center REITs described as the firm's "Big Short." Data Centers are among the worst-performing property sectors this year even after re...

A few days ago I wrote an article on Safehold. However, there's some recent news worth sharing. We're maintaining a Strong Buy with SAFE. A few days ago, I wrote an article titled, I'm Doubling Down On This 'Safe' Bet , in which I explained “Ju...

“Housing Starts” - the number of housing units on which construction started - in July dropped by 9.6% from June and by 8.1% year-over-year to a “seasonally adjusted annual rate” of 1.446 million housing units. In July, the number of units started in buildi...

Housing represents a large share of the US economy on both a direct and indirect basis, so its health says about the state of the overall economy. Updates on Building Permits and Housing Starts were mixed relative to expectations for July. For the current period, Housing Starts re...

The confidence of builders of single-family houses, after the second-biggest plunge in the data last month, fell again in August. Traffic is an indication of interest by buyers. And with the headwinds buyers face, including sky-high prices and 5%+ mortgage rates, they’ve lost i...