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BlackRock's ( BLK +0.7% ) closes and liquidates eight of its U.S. iShares ETFs, with five of them currency hedged, as part of its ongoing review of it product lineup. More news on: BlackRock, Inc., iShares Trust - iShares Currency Hedged MSCI Spain ETF, iShares Trust - iShares Currency...

This publication is sent with a heavy heart to all those who have been afflicted by COVID-19 thus far, understanding that we are likely just in the first few innings of a sharp recession and medical crisis. This experience should be a reminder of what is truly ‘essential’ in li...

REIT Rankings: Industrial In our Real Estate Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the residential and commercial real estate sectors. We focus on sector-level fundamentals, analyzing supply and demand conditions and macroeconomic factors driving underlying performa...

REIT Performance November was a good month for the broader stock market, but not for the REIT sector, which saw only its 2 nd negative month of 2019 (-0.60%). Despite fading slightly in November, the average equity REIT still has achieved a very strong return of 29.13% over the first 11 m...

REIT Rankings: Cell Towers In our REIT Rankings series, we analyze REITs within each of the commercial and residential sectors, focusing on property-level fundamentals and the macroeconomic forces driving overall supply and demand conditions. We then analyze REITs based on both common an...

REIT Rankings: Data Centers In our REIT Rankings series, we analyze REITs within each of the commercial and residential sectors, focusing on property-level fundamentals and the macroeconomic forces driving overall supply and demand conditions. We then analyze REITs based on both common a...

Madrid, Barcelona, other markets are well on their way. But some markets are still crushed. Spain's last epic housing bubble, one of the biggest in living memory, propelled median home prices to €2,100 per square meter, at which point the bubble began to burst. The national median p...

Its time for me to once more re-connect with my roots, so I am in Europe this summer. Last time I did this was the summer of 2016, and it was a very interesting stay to say the least. The Brexit vote happened while I was here. The attempted coup in Turkey, as well as the terrorist attack that ...

REIT Performance REITs have achieved gains in all four months of 2019, with a stellar 18.67% return year to date. REITs (+0.51%) underperformed the broader market in April, falling short of the NASDAQ (+4.74%), S&P 500 (3.93%) and Dow Jones Industrial Average (+2.56%). The market cap-w...

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 ...