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High Flyers: Cannabis REITs have been far-and-away the best-performing property sector for the second year in a row in 2020, soaring more than 150% despite the ongoing pandemic. Marijuana has continued along the seemingly unceasing path towards legalization. After the 2020 election, m...

The evidence keeps piling up. Sales of new single-family houses (based on signed contracts) rose 6.9% in June compared to June last year to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of sales of 776,000 houses, according to the Commerce Department this morning. It was a hair above January's 774,0...

REIT Rankings: Student Housing (Hoya Capital Real Estate, Co-Produced with Brad Thomas ) Student Housing REIT Sector Overview Will students be on-campus this Fall? If not, expect a significant near-term revenue hit for American Campus Communities ( ACC ), the lone student housing ...

During week 29 (July 13-17), U.S. equity REITs managed to register positive returns, but once again failed to outperform the S&P 500. The broader Vanguard Real Estate ETF ( VNQ ) index increased in value by 0.7% while the S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ) gained 1.3%. Source: Verizon Media (compi...

There is a lot of discussion about the low levels of inventory for sale, as potential sellers have pulled their homes off the market or are not wanting to list their homes at the moment, waiting for the pandemic to blow over, or waiting for more certainty or whatever, or their mortgage is now ...

And this is just for April, the very beginning of the pandemic's impact on housing. OK, it's actually worse. Mortgages that are in forbearance and have not missed a payment before going into forbearance don't count as delinquent. They're reported as "current." And 8.2% of all mortgages in ...

John Murray, PIMCO’s head of commercial real estate for the Americas, explains the stages of distress that are likely to unfold in the sector due to the economic shutdown – and the diverse opportunities that may arise for investors along the way. Copyright PIMCO 2020. A...

In mid-March, the longest bull market was ended by the sudden outbreak of COVID-19 causing many investors to shift their focus from earnings and risk to balance sheets and safety. In the very beginnings of the COVID-19 period almost all assets classes and their constituents suffered synchron...

REIT Performance With June's +5.86% average total return, the REIT sector saw monthly gains for just the 2nd time in 2020. Despite the strong June, REITs have endured an average loss of -23.88% over the first half of 2020. The REIT sector yet again underperformed the NASDAQ (+6%), but soli...

While exposure to the real estate asset class is common in defined benefit ((DB)) plans, this has only become a more recent occurrence in defined contribution ((DC)) plans. Many target-date funds (TDFs) have now started to provide exposure to real estate through stock exchange-listed real esta...