RIF News and Press, RMR Mortgage Trust Com From 04/19/19

By Catherine Yoshimoto, director, product management For a brief period, it appeared that the extended low-yield environment of today might at last be coming to a close. But the Fed's about-face to a more dovish stance on interest rates has investors again searching for yield, giving a boo...

Low-interest rates, lax-lending and speculative fever drove a boom in property demand, size and opulence over the past decade in most of the world's major cities. Now home prices are unaffordable for most and debt is maxed out everywhere, just as aging owners are looking to cash out and lower ...

The RMR Real Estate Income Fund ( RIF ) looks quite tempting at first glance thanks to its 7% dividend yield and enormous 21% discount to NAV, the greatest among all real estate CEFs. The thought of gaining access to a professionally-managed portfolio of mainly blue-chip REITs and REIT preferr...

A new week and more data suggesting that the credit-driven consumption peak is behind us this cycle, see Malls see a tsunami of store-closures as foot-traffic declines. While deep discounting brought some resurgence of shoppers into 2018, merchandisers selling at a loss cannot continue for...

Ross Clark – US equity markets, and oil. Wolf Richter – Bullish stock market, the automotive sector, collapsing real estate bubbles. Danielle Park – Shorting Canadian banks, TSX Composite Index Larry Reaugh - President & CEO of American Mangan...

Location, location, location." That's the mantra of real estate agents for explaining why sales in some areas are hot while sales in other areas are not. But it is also what we find when we track the total valuation of existing home sales by region in the United States, where nationally,...

This article was first released to subscribers 1 month ago. Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence and investigation. Previous editions of the Report can be searched using the ke...

Why the Wave of Mega-IPOs Won’t Bail Out the San Francisco & Silicon Valley Housing Bubbles, Despite All the Hype. Editor’s Note: The summary bullets for this article were chosen by Seeking Alpha Read more ...

Ross Clark - Stock markets, crude oil, palladium, bitcoin. Kevin Smith - Gold, silver, China, real estate, banks. Lobo Tiggre - Uranium, gold, junior miners. Larry Reaugh , - President & CEO of American Manganese Inc. Jim Pettit , - President & CEO...

The combination of falling median new home sale prices and rising median household incomes in the United States has resulted in a sharp decline in the relative unaffordability of new homes since the ratio between the two peaked in February 2018. The following chart shows the history of the r...