RFI News and Press, Cohen & Steers Total Return Realty Fund Inc. From 12/12/21

U.S. equity markets rebounded from a two-week skid as several significant market concerns - a potential economic slowdown from the Omicron variant and the debt-ceiling standoff - now appear likely to be avoided. Posting its best week of gains since early February and closing at fresh ...

Across the land, there are few better inflation hedges than land itself. Timber REITs own nearly 30 million acres of land, more acreage than the smallest U.S. five states combined. Truly an "organic growth" sector, Timber REITs - which were initially slammed at the outside of the pand...

Global economic growth will be slower but still above trend in 2022. This forecast should allow equities to outperform bonds. Inflation has yet to peak, but it will likely decline over the year and as a result any central bank tightening will be modest. 2021 was a year of rebound ...

Farewell - or perhaps good riddance - to the Prison REIT sector. GEO Group announced last week that it's joining CoreCivic in abandoning the REIT structure, concluding a tumultuous 8-year run as REITs. Prison REITs were the worst-performing property sector since their REIT conversions...

U.S. equity markets declined for the second-straight week while volatility measures soared to the highest levels this year as jittery investors attempted to evaluate the economic impacts of the Omicron variant. Following declines of over 2% last week and suffering the worst two-day de...

High on Growth: Cannabis REITs are far-and-away the best-performing REIT sector of the past half-decade as the budding industry thrives in the murky and often contradictory regulatory framework of legalized marijuana. Joining Innovative Industrial, Power REIT, and AFC Gamma, a pair of...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index (GMI) ticked lower in November but remains elevated relative to recent history. Adjusting the forecast with short-term momentum and medium-term mean-reversion market factors (defined below) reduces - substantially - GMI’s ex...

Bouncing back from punishing pandemic-related declines, Shopping Center REITs are on the cusp of a full recovery across all critical metrics but Omicron introduces fresh uncertainty and also potential opportunity. The retail landscape has improved dramatically this year. Retail sales ...

U.S. equity markets declined on a volatile Thanksgiving week as concerns over an emerging COVID variant triggered a fresh wave of economic restrictions and travel restrictions across Europe and Asia. Capping-off the choppy week with the worst single-day decline since February, the S&a...

In our "State of the REIT Sector" report, we analyze recently-released NAREIT T-Tracker data to review high-level REIT fundamentals over the past quarter through a series of charts. REITs are no longer cheap, but premium valuations have revived the "animal spirits" and sparked a much-...