REZ News and Press, iShares Trust Residential Real Estate From 08/30/23

2023-08-30 20:40:00 ET Summary The national average of a 30-year fixed rate mortgage is at the highest level in over 20 years. Rates for new mortgages are especially elevated relative to rates on already outstanding mortgages. Last week’s update on the national average ...

2023-08-28 22:26:00 ET Summary Since many variables influence housing prices, assessing residential real estate as an asset class is a complicated endeavor. Residential real estate prices are influenced by either fundamental supply and demand imbalances or simple speculation. ...

2023-08-28 12:33:21 ET Summary The REIT sector followed a strong June with further gains in July, averaging a solid +4.37% total return in July. Small-cap REITs (+5.23%) continued to outperform in July. Large caps (+2.46%) underperformed their smaller REIT peers for the 3rd straig...

2023-08-24 20:55:00 ET Summary The new era of “higher for much longer.” The 40-year bond & mortgage bull market died in late 2020. Today, Freddie Mac’s weekly measure of the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate hit a two-decade high of 7.23%. In terms o...

2023-08-24 12:19:16 ET More on mortgage rates Bond Market Expectations: Slow Growth And Moderate Inflation Trading U.S. Interest Rates Ahead Of Fed Meeting WisdomTree’s Kevin Flanagan says the US10Y will remain elevated in the near-term Treasury yields...

2023-08-24 08:00:00 ET Summary The available supply of existing homes has plummeted, while U.S. mortgage rates have risen and demand has remained relatively high. Existing homeowners, many of which financed their houses at very low mortgage rates in recent years, have become "trap...

2023-08-24 02:45:00 ET Summary As an active investment manager, we are constantly monitoring and re-evaluating our holdings to make sure that they continue to track our investment strategies. The technology sector has been dominating this year, in fact it was the driver behind the...

2023-08-22 15:24:00 ET Summary Today’s home affordability is the lowest on record, thanks to elevated prices and the highest mortgage rates in 23 years. The combination of sky-high prices and historically average interest rates puts the median Canadian home price some 32% a...

2023-08-22 05:30:00 ET Summary Chairman Powell keeps reassuring us that the Fed is "data-dependent," but what do they do if some data is unclear or even flawed? There is a conflict between the ADP jobs data and the Labor Department's "seasonally adjusted" jobs data. In recent mont...

2023-08-19 12:00:12 ET REITs declined in the week ended Aug. 18 as rate hike concerns weighed on sentiments. All voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee voted to raise the policy rate by 25 basis points at the July 25-26 meeting, according to the minutes of the FOMC's Ju...