FRI News and Press, First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund From 05/26/22

Industrial REITs - a perennial performance leader in recent years - have been slammed over the past month with declines of 20-30% after Amazon announced plans to cut costs in its logistics network. Amazon has pumped the brakes on its aggressive pandemic-fueled footprint expansion...

Sin stocks have historically outperformed the broader market averages. Today, a number of recession-resistant sin stocks are undervalued. We present our 3 favorites. For further details see: I Am Buying These 3 Sin Stocks

I invest in real estate and think it’s one of the best long-term investments, beating out the stock market if you were to factor in risk/volatility. In one month, real estate fell 14.7% in parts of Canada and the USA. In fact, the IYR real estate ETF fell 15% as well which help...

Emeralds in their natural state aren’t automatically gorgeous. They need to be verified by an expert, cut, and polished first. In the same way, a small-cap REIT might not look as impressive as other options out there... But selected by a knowledgeable investor and then plac...

Political Calculations' initial estimate of the U.S. new homes market cap for April 2022 is $31.37 billion. Soaring prices are the primary driver of April 2022's increase in the market cap for new homes sold in the U.S. Since new home sales are counted toward GDP when their sales ...

The Fed has barely started raising interest rates, but the air is already seeping out of the housing bubble. New home sales are often viewed as a leading indicator of the state of the overall housing market. The Federal Reserve blew up this housing bubble when it artificially supp...

2022 has been giving us opportunities, and one opportunity was to pick up a larger investment in Agree Realty. Agree is a monthly paying REIT that has been growing its dividend for 10 years now. A recession could hurt this REIT, but most of Agree's tenants are rated investment gra...

Stocks of homebuilders swoon amid worst inflation in construction costs, shortages, and spiking mortgage rates that take buyers out of the market. Unsold inventory of new houses spiked in a historic month-to-month leap of 34,000 houses, and by 127,000 houses from April last year, to 4...

Many of our members at iREIT on Alpha have asked us about assisting with a few core positions to anchor a new REIT portfolio. I recently commenced a new portfolio for my grandson in which I selected a few core positions to insure long-term financial freedom. Now is not the time to...

Now that interest rates are rising and the Fed is no longer buying mortgage-backed securities, mortgage rates are nearly double what they were a year ago. This and high house prices may be reducing demand and cooling the housing market. A cooling housing market does not necessaril...