ICF News and Press, iShares Cohen & Steers REIT ETF From 07/17/19

Homebuilder sentiment for July saw a modest bounce, rising from 64 up to 65 compared to expectations for a reading of 64. While sentiment has seen a nice improvement from its late 2018 low, builders are nowhere near as optimistic right now as they were right before the GOP tax bill - which lim...

REIT Rankings: Industrial In our REIT Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the commercial and residential real estate sectors. We rank REITs within the sectors based on both common and unique valuation metrics, presenting investors with numerous options that fit...

Real Estate Weekly Review Another week, another record high. Each of the three major US equity indexes climbed to new record highs on the week, with the S&P 500 ( SPY ) breaching 3,000 for the first time ever on a busy week of inflation data and Fed Chair Powell's testimony to Congress. ...

REIT Rankings: Data Centers In our REIT Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the commercial and residential real estate sectors. We rank REITs within the sectors based on both common and unique valuation metrics, presenting investors with numerous options that fit ...

I wanted to revisit one graph, because I think it tells the story so well about what's happening in many US cities while lending standards are tight. In the process, I realized that I should have adjusted for inflation, and in the process of doing that, I realized I had a minor excel workshe...

REIT Rankings: Timber REITs In our REIT Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the commercial and residential real estate sectors. We rank REITs within the sectors based on both common and unique valuation metrics, presenting investors with numerous options that fit ...

Real Estate Weekly Review On a week with no shortage of fireworks, financial markets were surprisingly tranquil on the final “jobs week” before the much-anticipated July Fed meeting. It would have taken some seriously high-powered fireworks in the employment figures to derail t...

It was supposed to be the Chinese government that was going to rescue the global economy. Once the rationalizations ended and officials around the world realized there was serious economic weakness building at the end of 2018 instead of a globally synchronized inflationary recovery, the green ...

Real Estate Weekly Review The US equity markets notched their best first-half of the year in more than two decades as expectations of easing monetary policy and slowing-but-steady economic growth lifted the S&P 500 ( SPY ) more than 17% through the first two quarters. The rally comes des...

Following up our analysis of the market for existing homes in the U.S., preliminary and revised data suggests that falling mortgage rates have coincided with a reversal in the late-2018, early-2019 decline in new home sales. The following chart tracking the trailing-twelve-month average of...