ICF News and Press, iShares Cohen & Steers REIT ETF From 06/01/19

Real Estate Weekly Review On a tumultuous month that saw the S&P 500 ( SPY ) dive more than 6% and temporarily wipe-out more than $4 trillion in market value, REITs ( VNQ ) eked out a 0.1% monthly gain as real estate became the best-performing equity sector in 2019. The sudden and unexpe...

With consumer goods and communications services sliding on the intensifying trade dispute with China and potential tariffs on goods from Mexico,  real estate provides some protection. More news on: Vanguard Real Estate ETF, iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF, Cohen&Steers Quality Income...

In April 2019, the initial raw data for median new home sale prices in the U.S. spiked sharply upward, rising to a new record high value of $342,200 - a nearly 12% increase over the second estimate of $305,800 for March 2019's median new home sale price. Meanwhile, median household income in...

With Tuesday's release of the March S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, we learned that seasonally adjusted home prices for the benchmark 20-city index were up 0.09% month over month. The seasonally adjusted national index year-over-year change has hovered between 4.2% and 6.7% for the last...

Introduction Is your favored metric housing or the yield curve? Depending on which one you prefer, the economy is either careening towards recession or else “no worries.” Because the two very important leading metrics are giving completely different signals this spring. Is t...

By Michael S. Canter and Janaki Rao Credit risk-transfer securities (CRTs) have made the US mortgage market safer by shifting default risk from taxpayers to private investors. The latest attempt to overhaul the housing finance system isn't likely to change that. A recent memo from Presid...

Real Estate Weekly Review For the 17th time out of the 21 weeks of 2019, the REIT Indexes ( VNQ and IYR ) finished the week higher, continuing to feel the tailwinds of the retreat in benchmark interest rates. The 10-Year yield dipped to the lowest level since late 2017 as trade worries and...

By Catherine Yoshimoto, Director, Product Management Over the past decade, e-commerce has evolved to accommodate an increasingly on-demand economy. While it was once adequate to wait 5-7 business days after ordering an item online, a growing number of consumers are placing a premium on sho...

By Robert Hughes Sales of new single-family homes fell 6.9 percent in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 673,000, down from a multiyear high of 723,000 in March. Sales had posted three monthly gains in a row after hitting a low of 564,000 in December (see top chart). Sales are u...

Co-produced with The Belgian Dentist for The Income Strategist Stock prices are driven by fundamentals over long periods of time. In the short term, investor sentiment plays a big role. Fundamentals are strong for REITs, and this bodes well for the longer term picture. Investor senti...