ICF News and Press, iShares Cohen & Steers REIT ETF From 07/26/19

I noticed that housing units per adult have actually started to level off. This is interesting because total permits and total starts are still below past averages. So, maybe the new neutral run-rate for new units is less than 1.5 million annually. Maybe the need for new units is less acute ...

Surging prices are a demand killer, but real estate industry laments the medicine didn't work. The relentlessness of falling home sales is starting to baffle the real estate industry that had expected plunging mortgage rates to fire up sales: Across the US, sales of "existing homes" (previ...

By Robert Hughes Sales of existing homes fell 1.7 percent in June to a 5.27-million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are down 2.2 percent from a year ago and appear to be trending roughly flat in the 5,000 to 5,500 range (see chart). Sales declined in the two larger regions but rose ...

It's been a while since I wrote about Brick-and-Mortar Retail eREITs ("B&MRR" hereinafter). Recall that three years ago, I've turned bearish on most types of eREITs ( VNQ , SCHH , IYR , XLRE , RWR , ICF ). Since then, we've bought more than a few eREITs (especially following the e...

ETF Overview iShares Cohen & Steers REIT ETF ( ICF ) has a portfolio of large-cap U.S. REITs. The fund tracks the investment results of the Cohen & Steers Realty Majors Index. The fund's focuses on large-cap REITs is beneficial because large-cap REIT tend to have better portfolio ...

Real Estate Weekly Review A dynamic that surely further enrages critics of the Federal Reserve and the immense power of a small group of economists over investment markets, US equity markets gyrated this week on every utterance of Fed members in a series of speeches ahead of the most clos...

REIT Rankings: Healthcare In our REIT Rankings series, we analyze each of the commercial and residential real estate sectors. We analyze companies within the sectors based on both common and unique valuation metrics, presenting investors with numerous options that fit their own investing...

REIT Performance After a poor performance in May, REITs rebounded in June (+1.61%), bringing the average equity REIT to a stellar return of 19.17% over the first half of 2019. REITs saw much smaller gains than the broader market did in June, as the Nasdaq (+7.42%), S&P 500 (+6.89%) and...

By Raymond Jacobs, Managing Director, Franklin Real Asset Advisors; Marc Weidner, Managing Director, Franklin Real Asset Advisors; Woon Pin Chong, Managing Director, Franklin Real Asset Advisors Many observe the impacts of e-commerce growth as decimating commercial retail properties, leav...

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...