FFR News and Press, First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Global Real Estate Index Fund From 08/05/22

The era of 15-20% rent increases may be coming to an end, but renters shouldn't expect significant relief anytime soon. The inflationary effects will be felt for years to come. Despite a stellar slate of earnings results from the apartment sector in which all ten REITs raised their fu...

We're approaching the halfway point of another newsworthy real estate earnings season with roughly 55 equity REITs representing 50% of the total market capitalization having reported results. Among the 43 REITs that have provided full-year Funds From Operations ("FFO") guidance, 30 RE...

U.S. equity markets ripped higher this past week after GDP data showing a second-straight quarter of contraction sent long-term benchmark interest rates plunging to their lowest levels since April. Delivering its first back-to-back weekly gains since March, the S&P 500 rallied 4.3...

Healthcare REITs - the weakest-performing property sector last year - have been among the top-performing REIT sectors in 2022, benefiting from their status as relatively defensive and recession-resistant REITs. The ebbing of the COVID pandemic has sparked a much-needed recovery in Sen...

Why inflation may not be all bad for real estate? Is Canadian real estate facing a crash? Not likely. How a slower Canadian housing market may affect economic growth? Aggressive interest rate hikes by central banks have sent a significant chill across the real es...

Excessive pandemic stimulus has resulted in historically expensive global property prices. Despite differences between countries, the issue is widespread with the vast majority of nations now having expensive property markets. Prices are the most expensive in decades, including mo...

The 'Return to the Office' is here - but it's underwhelming. Despite 80% of employees currently in post-pandemic work arrangements, office utilization rates have remained 40-60% below pre-pandemic levels. Office leasing activity has remained surprisingly resilient at just 10% below pr...

"Bad news was good news" this past week as U.S. equity markets were broadly higher after weakening economic data in the U.S. and Eurozone pulled benchmark interest rates to two-month-lows. Delivering just its fourth up-week in the past sixteen weeks, the S&P 500 advanced 2.6% whil...

First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that the special shareholder meeting for First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Markets Real Estate Index Fund (NYSE Arca: FFR) (the “Fund”), a series of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund II (the “Trust&...

The REIT sector has fallen in 5 of the first 6 months of 2022, including a -9.44% total return in June. Large cap (-7.01%) and micro cap (-9.27%) REITs outperformed, while mid caps (-9.66%) and small caps (-10.61%) suffered the heaviest losses in June. Only 10.0% of REIT securitie...