RIF News and Press, RMR Mortgage Trust Com From 04/16/20

Shareholders Approve Conversion to a Commercial Mortgage REIT RMR Real Estate Income Fund (NYSE American: RIF) announced the results of its Special Meeting of Shareholders, which was held earlier today as follows: Shareholders approved a change in RIF’s business from a reg...

The coronavirus pandemic will cause many cash-strapped Americans to sell their homes, flooding the market with excess supply. A U.S. housing crisis is coming and although it won't be anything like the last one, that won't make it any less painful. Even though there has been no rampant specul...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook Back to work soon? U.S. equity markets posted their strongest weekly gains in decades amid mounting evidence that the "coronavirus curve" is flattening in key "hotspots" around the world including New York City and western Europe. Epidemiological models that we...

Special Meeting of Shareholders still to be held on April 16, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. RMR Real Estate Income Fund (NYSE American: RIF) announced today that its special meeting of shareholders scheduled for April 16, 2020 (the “Special Meeting”) will be held by Internet w...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook Will the rent get paid? Following strong gains last week after the successful passage of the massive $2.2 trillion stimulus package, U.S. equity markets declined on another volatile week as employment data painted a grim picture of the state of the U.S. economy...

This publication is sent with a heavy heart to all those who have been afflicted by COVID-19 thus far, understanding that we are likely just in the first few innings of a sharp recession and medical crisis. This experience should be a reminder of what is truly ‘essential’ in li...

REIT Rankings: Single-Family Rentals In our REIT Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the residential and commercial real estate sectors. We focus on sector-level fundamentals, analyzing supply and demand conditions and macroeconomic factors driving underlying perf...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook Bull market or bull trap? U.S. equity markets surged to their best week since 2009, ending the shortest bear market in U.S. history after the successful passage of a massive $2 trillion stimulus package designed to buffer the near-term blow from coronavirus-relat...

Real Estate Factor Report: Cheap REITs Get Cheaper "Recover and Rebuild" was the theme of the real estate sector throughout the 2010s, and few could have imagined that many REITs may be facing a similar re-build in the early stages of 2020 amid the coronavirus crisis. While the majority of...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook A different - and less fun - kind of March Madness. The ongoing coronavirus crisis roiled global markets on a historically volatile week that marked the end to the nearly decade-long post-recession bull market for U.S. equities. There were few places to hide as t...