RFI News and Press, Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund Inc. From 10/10/22

Summary Self-Storage REITs have defied expectations to the upside as comprehensively as any real estate sector since the start of the pandemic, delivering earnings growth of over 50% since 2019. Incremental storage demand is driven by change- particularly home moving rates and hou...

Summary Over the last two weeks Federal Reserve officials delivered 37 speeches, all of the speakers competing to see who could be the most hawkish. The big problem with the Fed’s plan to kill inflation by reducing economic growth and raising the unemployment rate is that t...

Summary U.S. equity markets snapped a three-week skid in another choppy week after employment data showed signs of softening in labor markets - but not enough to alter the Fed's aggressive tightening path. Bouncing off its lowest levels in over two years, the S&P 500 advanced ...

Summary Hotel REITs have held up surprisingly well throughout the recent market turmoil and remain one of the top-performing property sectors this year following a solid summer of operating performance. Several years of pent-up leisure demand from COVID delays helped to offset a s...

Summary Today, you have a “once in a decade” chance to win big with REITs. REITs have dropped heavily despite enjoying strong fundamentals. Let others panic. REITs always recovered and richly reward those who bought them following market crashes. The st...

Summary YTD, the S&P 500 is now down 24% while bonds have their own double-digit losses. Like stock valuations, currency valuations aren’t great timing tools but over a 3-year period after becoming undervalued, the outperformance is strong. Consumer defensive stocks...

Summary RQI's discount has widened significantly with the volatile market. With the overall decline in the REIT space, this name is starting to get really interesting. If we see a mild recession, dividends should continue to hold up well, which could see the real estate space ...

Summary U.S. equity markets and bond markets slid this week - deepening a historic year-long rout - as Federal Reserve officials doubled down on hawkish rhetoric despite increasingly-apparent tremors of market instability. Closing the month and quarter at the lowest levels in two ...

Summary RQI is leading my real estate CEF ranking now. Fast facts on this fund. Past performance. Buy-and-hold vs. rotational strategy. Ranking real estate closed-end funds Academic research shows that CEFs (closed-end funds) with a positive discount to N...

Summary With Hurricane Ian making landfall as a destructive Category 4 storm on the Southwest Florida coast this week, we examine the expected impact on manufactured housing REITs. The storm took a similar path as Hurricane Irma in 2017, but Ian's storm surge and wind impacts appe...