RIF News and Press, RMR Mortgage Trust Com From 10/15/19

The real estate investment trust ( REIT ) combines the tax, leverage, income, appreciation, and inflation advantages of real estate with the convenience, liquidity, accountability, and easy scaling of capital found in publicly traded stocks into one wonderful investment vehicle that has create...

Note: This report was released to members one month ago. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report 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 Rep...

New home prices rebounded in August 2019 according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau on new residential sales. Both median and average new home sale prices were up, with the initial figure for the average new home sale price reaching an all-time high of $404,200, beating Dec...

Let me start out my look at the latest August new home sales report with my typical housing mantra: Interest rates lead sales Sales lead prices Prices lead inventory We saw all of that in Thursday morning's report. First, the trend of rising single-family sales continues, and the...

Price gains down to trickle in Chicago. Red-hot Dallas slows. Charlotte and Minneapolis surge. Crushed Detroit and Cleveland hit new highs. Housing market dynamics are local. Just how much they differ from market to market is depicted by the 20-city CoreLogic Case-Shiller Home Price Index....

It has been a very strong couple of weeks for housing-related indicators as recent reports on Building Permits, Housing Starts, Existing Home Sales, and New Home Sales have all exceeded forecasts. Using data from our Economic Indicators Database, we found that it isn't often that all four indi...

By Robert Hughes Sales of new single-family homes jumped 7.1 percent in August to a 713,000 seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are up 18.0 percent from a year ago but remain below the peaks of prior expansions (see chart). Sales rose in two of the four regions tallied: they surged 16.5...

By David Wertheim, Senior Client Portfolio Manager One year ago, we discussed the case for active management in the US real estate investment trust ((REIT)) space during the late-cycle market environment. Our team view was that relaxed monetary policy implemented by global central ba...

By Jill Mislinski Thursday morning's release of the August Existing-Home Sales rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.49 million units from the previous month's 5.42M. The Investing.com consensus was for 5.37 million. The latest number represents a 1.3% increase from the previous m...

Nationally, the total valuation of aggregate existing home sales has continued to dip in June 2019 from April 2019's level . All but the U.S. Census Bureau's Northeast region has seen dips from recent peaks. Preliminary and revised state level existing home sales data through June 2019 is n...