REZ News and Press, iShares Trust Residential Real Estate From 07/17/24

2024-07-17 15:10:00 ET Summary On a month/month basis, housing starts increased by 3%. Single-family units were down 2.2% and fell below the million annualized run rate. Housing starts are trending lower and housing stocks have reversed a steady downtrend in the last few tradi...

2024-07-17 04:35:00 ET Summary The US economy is still growing (positive GDP) but growth has slowed and signs of weakness are apparent. This should not be a surprise: the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by about 5.5% between Spring of 2022 and Summer of 2023 in an attempt to slo...

2024-07-17 03:40:00 ET Summary While stocks of large US companies have done well over the last few years, stocks of small US companies are negative. Year-to-date, the cap-weighted S&P 500 has returned 3 times the return of the S&P 500 Equal-Weight. Although the S&P...

2024-07-16 14:20:00 ET Summary In taking a deeper dive into the existing home sales report for May, I noticed that the distribution of sales across the six price “buckets” shows a different story than the headline number broken out by sales region. Recent reports ind...

2024-07-16 09:10:00 ET Summary The affordability of new homes sold in the United States was little changed in May 2024. With the mortgage payment for the typical new home sold consuming 43% of the income earned by a household in the exact middle of the distribution of income in th...

2024-07-13 12:00:00 ET More on real estate Explained: The True Story About U.S. Housing Inventory Home prices relentlessly climb to new heights despite elevated mortgage rates: Redfin Commercial real estate risk may last for years, Fed's Powell warns Dividend...

2024-07-10 04:01:44 ET More on real estate Billionaires Are Buying REITs Hand-Over-Fist: RQI Vs. VNQ IYR: Cost Of Capital Only Comes Down In Adverse Economic Scenario INDS: Still A Good Pick For Dividend Growth The State Of REITs: June 2024 Edition ...

2024-07-09 06:25:00 ET Summary As reported by ZeroHedge recently, the NAR U.S. Pending Home Sales Index dropped 2.1% MoM in May, down 6.6% YoY. The position of new home buyers in 2024 is unprecedented. Since January 2021, the average 30-year fixed rate has increased by 4.21%. ...

2024-07-07 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets climbed to fresh record-highs during the Independence Day week, while interest rates fell sharply after a critical slate of employment data showed evidence of cooling labor markets. Traders monitored the continued fallout from the...

2024-07-06 12:01:39 ET More on Real Estate XLRE: Rally Blocked By Technical And Fundamentals REITs continue to reduce NAV discount amid increased rate cut hopes Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Big real estate stocks kick of...