RIF News and Press, RMR Mortgage Trust Com From 05/04/20

By John Corcoran, Senior Client Portfolio Manager Looking forward, when markets stabilize, we see some potential tailwinds for residential REITs. The coronavirus outbreak and OPEC price war has punished risk asset prices, and real estate investment trusts (REITs) are no exception. ...

I don't know how it happened It all took place so quick But all I can do is hand it to you And your latest trick - Dire Straits, Your Latest Trick It's bad. It's badder. It's worse than badder. Almost every article that you read in the Press these days paints an economic picture ...

This graph from Len Kiefer at Freddie Mac shows the latest movements in homeownership rates. The Census Bureau reported updated homeownership rates, and the trend continues to be relatively positive. Now, you can see from the graph that homeownership rates are still very low, when accounti...

There was one article after another article, every place you looked, that the U.S. equity markets were going to correct anywhere from 25% to 50% down. That has not exactly been the case. The American stock markets have been up and up and up as the wrong focus was used. I have said, countless t...

Housing sales are something of a slow-motion economic indicator, where March 2020's recently released data is only beginning to show the effects on new home sales, which for the month, were primarily affected in the U.S. Census Bureau's West region. That makes sense when you consider that ...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook Don't fight the Fed, or the Federal Government. U.S. equity markets finished the week modestly lower - but held on to the majority of their robust April rally - as investors look ahead to a possible reopening of the U.S. economy following another rough slate of e...

Closed-end-funds offer investors exposure to actively managed investment portfolios that oftentimes feature more dynamic strategies compared to passive ETFs. While many investors are attracted to the income profile of the various funds with corresponding impressively high yields and managed ...

REIT Rankings: Healthcare 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 performance. We...

Real Estate Weekly Outlook A Grand Reopening? Following the best week for the large-cap indexes in decades, U.S. equity markets finished higher for the second-straight week after another dismal slate of economic data underscored the dire urgency of restarting the now-dormant U.S. economy. ...

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...