RIF News and Press, RMR Mortgage Trust Com From 03/27/19

San Francisco Bay Area House prices -4.3%, condos -5.7% since July, Seattle house prices -5.9%, most since Housing Bust 1; Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Portland, New York condos, even Boston decline. Dallas ticks up. The most obvious one was Seattle. Now it's joined by a second most...

By Greg Kuhl, CFA & Guy Barnard, CFA & Tim Gibson Tim Gibson, Guy Barnard and Greg Kuhl, Portfolio Managers for the Global Property Equities strategy, discuss how REITs can provide a way to capitalize on aging populations. The "silver tsunami" metaphor is frequently used to descr...

I had a nice conversation with Josiah Neeley of the R Street Institute and Doug McCullough of the Lone Star Policy Institute on their podcast "Urbane Cowboys". Elsewhere, Emily Hamilton, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, was on the Marketplace Morning Report, on NPR, discussing ...

Introduction With this morning’s release of housing permits and starts for February, this series has finally been brought back up to date following the government shutdown. Let’s take a look, bearing in mind that interest rates turn first before sales, and sales turn before pri...

The REIT market is very top heavy, the top 25 names make up over half of the market and the top three sectors are just under half. Any index that is market cap-weighted will be heavily concentrated in these names and sectors. Most REIT strategies are very index-like, with active share in the...

Ross Clark - Canadian federal budget, stock markets, and the Canadian dollar. Hilliard MacBeth - Canadian federal budget, new homebuyers and real estate. Robert Campbell - California's housing slump and US real estate. Larry Reaugh - President & CEO of ...

New home sales in the U.S. continued their negative growth trajectory in January 2019, the data for which was finally published last week after having been delayed by the partial U.S. government shutdown earlier this year. Since that report came out shortly after we analyzed the relative a...

The housing market has always been a key indicator for how the economy is performing for the average American as owning your own home should rightfully be the aim and dream of any hard-working family. Let's look at 3 key predictions at what trends may be awaiting us as the year progresses and ...

RMR Real Estate Income Fund (NYSE American: RIF) today announced its regular quarterly distribution to common shareholders. The distribution of $0.33 per common share will be paid on or about March 29, 2019 to holders of record of common shares as of the close of business on March 21, 2019...

In my last article, Concerns About The Real Estate Market And Stock Market As A Whole , I explained that further exploration must be conducted once the data for December and January is released. At the time of writing, there have been a few official releases pertaining to data from December; ...