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By Brian Phillips Black Friday is around the corner. Will US shoppers head to the mall? Or are malls out of fashion for good? The debate about the retail apocalypse is playing out in a single bond index. That index is the CMBX.6, which references 25 US commercial mortgage-backed securi...

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Speculative frenzies are all very well As long as we know we're in such a speculative frenzy, they're great fun and easy to make money in. Invest in whatever that speculation is and make sure, certain, that we're out before the bubble pops. The problem of course is that pop and cleaning up t...

After having held relatively steady in recent months, new home sale prices have resumed falling. The chart below shows the raw median and average new home sale prices reported by the U.S. Census Bureau since January 2000, where we have to go back to early January 2017 to find similarly low p...

The aim for this article is to determine A) how attractive dividend yields offered by REITs are compared to the historical average and to the average S&P 500 company, B) the provided yields across various REIT sectors, and C) which particular sector could be considered the best pick for di...

Existing home sales in the U.S. largely continued treading water through August 2019, with the initial estimate of the seasonally-adjusted aggregate value of recorded sales across the U.S. dipping slightly to $1.51 trillion. We've broken the state-level trends down regionally, where we find ...

The last time prices fell like this was during the Financial Crisis. But now, there is no crisis. The median price of new single-family houses in September fell 8.8% from a year ago to $299,400 - down 12.8% from the peak in November and December 2017 and back where the median price had fir...

While things go wrong for Jay Powell in repo, they are going right in housing. Sort of. It's more than cliché that the real estate sector is interest rate-sensitive. It surely is, and much of the Fed's monetary policy figuratively banks on it. When policymakers talk about interest rate ...

By Robert Hughes Sales of existing homes fell 2.2 percent in September to a 5.38 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. Sales are still up 3.9 percent from a year ago, recovering from a slowdown during 2018 and early 2019. However, sales are about even with levels from 2016. Sales decl...

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...