IYR News and Press, iShares U.S. Real Estate

2024-06-27 09:25:00 ET Summary At the national level, home prices hit another all-time high in April. In late 2022/early 2023, we saw a pullback in home prices following an initial post-COVID surge in 2020 and 2021. Since just before COVID hit in February 2020, home prices are...

2024-06-27 06:22:33 ET Summary To begin with, we are not major fans of ETFs of REITs, since REITs themselves are already asset portfolios and more layering is unnecessary and costly at 0.4% expense ratio. IYR is underperforming because of high costs of capital, and we think high o...

2024-06-26 14:00:00 ET Summary Retail investors should consider REITs in their portfolios for diversification and income streams. Hoya Capital created REIT ETFs in response to subscriber demand for higher yielding products. Navigating the wall of debt and evaluating dividend s...

2024-06-24 10:16:00 ET Summary The economic environment was unchanged last week, as the 10-year rate and the dollar both rose slightly. Large cap growth stocks and commodities continue to lead on the YTD basis with intermediate-term Treasuries flat, while small-cap stocks and REIT...

2024-06-23 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets climbed to fresh record-highs this week while benchmark interest rates hovered near two-month lows as the "bad news is good news" dynamic persisted. Investors responded favorably to another relatively downbeat slate of economic da...

2024-06-22 12:00:23 ET More on Real Estate Mortgage portability: A solution to the housing market's 'lock-in effect'? REITs said to have reported a surge in capital raising activities in May 8 REITs increase dividend in May, Summit Hotel Properties posts largest hike...

2024-06-21 12:58:13 ET More on Real Estate XLRE: Rally Blocked By Technical And Fundamentals 8 REITs increase dividend in May, Summit Hotel Properties posts largest hike - report REITs reduce NAV discount in May - report Short interest in S&P 500 real est...

2024-06-21 08:15:00 ET Summary Rate cuts have finally arrived, but why hasn't it benefitted REITs? What's needed to lift the REITs market. Why REITs are still struggling. ... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Why More...

2024-06-21 07:27:49 ET Summary After a rough start to the year, REITs partially bounced back in May with a +2.51% average total return. Small-cap REITs (-0.48%) averaged a negative return in May, but micro caps (+5.09%), large caps (+4.28%) and mid caps (+3.35%) were solidly in th...

2024-06-20 13:46:13 ET More on Real Estate XLRE: Rally Blocked By Technical And Fundamentals Short interest in S&P 500 real estate names ticks up to 2.09% REITs reduce NAV discount in May - report Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Real Estate Select ...