ITB News and Press, iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF From 05/02/19

Condo prices fall year over year in New York. In San Francisco, SoCal and Seattle, year-over-year price gains shrink to nearly nothing. Despite the hype, Boston prices decline. Denver, Dallas and Atlanta eke out records. After seven months in a row of month-to-month declines, prices of sin...

Pres. Trump and top Democrat lawmakers agree on a $2T goal for a U.S. infrastructure package , Senate Minority Leader Schumer says following a White House meeting today. More news on: Fluor Corporation, McDermott International, Inc., Gencor Industries, Inc., News on the U.S. economy, Top ...

Background - just who is this Goldilocks, anyway? In a March 31 article, Trump's Right, The Fed Should Cut, But 'Goldilocks' Is Likely Anyway , I defined today's Goldilocks markets this way: ... the Goldilocks scenario: interest rates behave well as the economy slows, but the economy w...

Real Estate Weekly Review Bouncing back from their worst week of 2019, REITs ( VNQ and IYR ) resumed their rally, now having produced positive returns in all but three weeks of 2019. Led by the yield-sensitive segments of the real estate market, REITs climbed 1.5% as the 10-year yield pu...

REIT Rankings: Manufactured Housing In our REIT Rankings series, we introduce and update readers on each of the residential and commercial real estate sectors. We analyze REITs within the sectors based on both common and unique valuation metrics, presenting investors with numerous option...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.20% for the week ending April 25, 2019 vs. 4.17% in the prior week and 4.58% a year ago, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ...

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...

New home sales not only unexpectedly increased, but reached a 16-month high, indicating that lower mortgage rates have lured buyers back into the market, a point that PulteGroup's CEO made in the homebuilder's Q1 earnings release. More news on: iShares U.S. Home Construction ETF, Pult...

Overview Financial centers that have been closed for the extended holiday have re-opened, but the news stream is light and market participants are digesting developments and positioning for this week's central bank meetings and the first look at Q1 US GDP. The US decision to end exemptions 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...