REM News and Press, iShares Mortgage Real Estate ETF From 04/25/19

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 ...

With AGNC Investment (NASDAQ: AGNC ) announcing a dividend cut after Wednesday's close, eyes will be on other mortgage REITs to see how the Fed's dovish stance affects their payouts. More news on: Orchid Island Capital, Inc., ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc., Annaly Capital Management, Inc....

One of the most important steps in evaluating mortgage REITs is finding the price to book value ratios. Using the mortgage REITs book value gives us an idea for the general range the mortgage REIT should trade in. We expect that all mortgage REITs holding similar assets will generally be corre...

Background Information In this article, I provide a short and succinct review of the iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF ( IYR ). I will lay out the major characteristics that I screen for and at the end, provide some comparison between IYR and several of its peers in the U.S. real estate ETF ...

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...

Real Estate Weekly Review All good things must eventually come to an end. Following a remarkable run of performance over the past fourteen weeks, REITs ( VNQ and IYR ) dipped nearly 3% on the week, the worst week since diving more than 6% in late December of last year. As we cautioned la...

30-year fixed-rate mortgage averages 4.17% for the week ending April 18, 2019, up from 4.12% in the prior week, and 4.47% a year ago, according to Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey. More news on: UBS ETRACS Monthly Pay 2x Leveraged Mortgage REIT ETN, iShares Mortgage Real Est...

On Thursday morning, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reported mortgage application volumes for the week ending April 12th. Refinancing volumes dropped over 8% after an 11.4% WoW drop last week. Refinancing is still running at a strong pace (roughly twice the pace where they finished las...

The mortgage REIT market frequently has periods that should make investors question efficient markets. There are periods where things appear efficient, but there are also some incredible failures and the duration of those failures can be as short as a couple of hours or as long as a few quarte...

Real Estate Weekly Review Stop us if you've heard this one before. Real estate continued to roll this week, a common refrain so far in 2019 as "Goldilocks" economic conditions have rejuvenated the previously sputtering REIT and housing sectors following their worst year since the recession...