ICF News and Press, iShares Cohen & Steers REIT ETF From 04/24/19

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 ...

By Robert Hughes Sales of new single-family homes jumped 4.5 percent in March to a 692,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate, the third monthly rise in a row, resulting in a 3.0 percent gain from a year ago. Sales increased in three of the four regions tallied: sales gained 17.6 percent in t...

There is plenty of supply, but it's the wrong supply, priced too high Across the US, hot and cold housing markets all thrown into one bucket: Sales of "existing homes" (single-family houses, townhouses, condos, and co-ops) in March dropped 5.4% from March last year to a seasonally adjusted a...

By Jill Mislinski This morning's release of the March Existing Home Sales fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.21 million units from the previous month's revised 5.48M. The Investing.com consensus was for 5.30 million. The latest number represents an 11.8% increase from the previ...

Strong home price appreciation last year led many to wonder if housing was unsustainably strong. I thought not, and in November 2018, wrote " Housing Forecast: Not A Bubble In 2019 ." This update shows that housing will continue to soften, though not quite so much as previously expected. The...

Main Thesis The purpose of this article is to evaluate the iShares Cohen & Steers REIT ETF ( ICF ) as an investment option at its current market price. As a whole, I still find the Real Estate sector an attractive place to park capital. Interest rates remain low, and the Federal Reserve ...

Real Estate Weekly Review All good things must eventually come to an end. Following a remarkable run of performance over the past fourteen weeks, REITs ( VNQ and IYR ) dipped nearly 3% on the week, the worst week since diving more than 6% in late December of last year. As we cautioned la...

By Catherine Yoshimoto, director, product management For a brief period, it appeared that the extended low-yield environment of today might at last be coming to a close. But the Fed's about-face to a more dovish stance on interest rates has investors again searching for yield, giving a boo...

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 ...

A new week and more data suggesting that the credit-driven consumption peak is behind us this cycle, see Malls see a tsunami of store-closures as foot-traffic declines. While deep discounting brought some resurgence of shoppers into 2018, merchandisers selling at a loss cannot continue for...