RIF News and Press, RMR Mortgage Trust Com From 01/08/20

Below is an updated look at home price changes across the country using the most recent S&P Case Shiller home price indices. As shown, the National index rose just 10 basis points month over month and 3.34% year over year. Notably, the number of cities that saw rising and falling home pric...

It's all somewhat confusing, once acclimated to this new paradigm . The highest in years can still be nearer the lowest in history. Given that apparent contradiction, it seems as if only one of those perspectives can apply. Which one you focus on often depends upon which way you already lean....

For income investors, closed-end funds, or CEFs, are an attractive investment class that offers high income generally in the range of 6%-10%, broad diversification in terms of a variety of asset classes, and market matching total returns in the long term if selected carefully and acquired at r...

By Jill Mislinski Monday morning's release of the November New Home Sales from the Census Bureau came in at 719K, up 1.3% month over month from a revised 710K in October. Here is the opening from the report: New Home Sales Sales of new single‐family houses in November 20...

Today REITs have grown in popularity to the point where U.S. REITs as a body own an enormous amount of real estate assets (over $3 trillion in gross assets). Furthermore, they come in all shapes and sizes, ranging in size from a few million dollars’ worth of assets to large portfolios...

Things are looking up for new homebuilders in the U.S. at the end of 2019, marking a strong contrast with how 2018 ended. Home builders are closing out 2019 more optimistic than they've been in decades. The National Association of Home Builders' monthly confidence index increased f...

RMR Real Estate Income Fund (NYSEMKT: RIF ) plans to convert from a registered investment company to a commercial mortgage real estate investment trust, which will focus on originating and acquiring first mortgage loans — generally of $50M or less — secured by middle market a...

The Independent Trustees and The Board Recommends Shareholders Vote “ FOR ” the Business Change Proposal, as Best Means to Improve Long Term Shareholder Value Business Change Provides Path to Potentially Meaningfully Increase Distributions to Shareholders in the Future ...

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 December 31, 2019 to holders of record of common shares as of the close of business on December 23, 2...

The first reports in December are in, and both were negative. Let's start with construction spending. Overall construction spending declined -0.8% in October. The more leading residential construction spending declined -0.9%, the second decline in a row (blue in the graph below): Figure 1...