RIF News and Press, RMR Mortgage Trust Com From 03/07/19

In my last article, Concerns About The Real Estate Market And Stock Market As A Whole , I explained that further exploration must be conducted once the data for December and January is released. At the time of writing, there have been a few official releases pertaining to data from December; ...

What had been a well-established, rising trend for median U.S. new home sale prices appears to have begun breaking in the fourth quarter of 2018. As measured by the trailing twelve month average of median new home sale prices in the United States, the most recent trend that had begun in Sept...

The most recent Case Shiller home price data for the 20 cities tracked was released last week, and below we have updated a number of charts and tables that we’ve published on a regular basis over the years. The first table shows the month-over-month and year-over-year change in home pri...

By Jill Mislinski Tuesday's release of the December New Home Sales from the Census Bureau came in at 621K, up 3.7% month-over-month from a revised 599K in November. Here is the opening from the report: Data collection and processing were delayed for this indicator release due to ...

By Senior Portfolio Manager Jeff Brothers As a follow-up to last month's podcast on the agency mortgage market, we wanted to check in this week on the state of the overall U.S. housing market. The recent housing data has definitely been weak, but is this just a slowdown after years of robu...

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US stocks continued to rebound in 2019, generating the strongest performance for the major asset classes in February. Foreign stocks, high-yield bonds and US real estate investment trusts (REITs) also rose while investment-grade bonds in the US and abroad slumped. Equities in the US were the...

By Jill Mislinski Wednesday morning the National Association of Realtors released the January data for their Pending Home Sales Index. Here is an excerpt from the latest press release: Lawrence Yun , NAR chief economist, had expected an increase in January home sales. "A change in Fede...

It was always folly to believe that inflating asset bubbles could solve the structural problems of a post-industrial economy. The Doomsday Scenario for the stock and housing bubbles is simple: the Fed's magic fails. When dropping interest rates to zero and flooding the financial sector w...

New residential housing construction was surprisingly weak in December, presenting more evidence for assuming that the US economic growth will continue to slow. Housing permits perked up, providing a degree of optimism for expecting that building activity will rebound in the months ahead. But ...