RORE News and Press, Hartford Multifactor REIT ETF From 02/18/20

Small-Cap REIT Spotlight Overview In our Small-Cap Spotlight Series , we highlight some undercovered small-cap companies in the real estate sector that may not get the attention - or institutional analyst coverage - that they deserve, particularly those with a unique strategy within their...

The economic calendar is modest, and the trading week is holiday-shortened. The most important reports all relate to housing – prices, sales, and plans. With markets viewed as fully or excessively valued by many, there is some renewed interests in finding some attractive remaining secto...

REIT Rankings: Apartments 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 Investment Trusts (REITs) returned 29% in 2019, supported primarily by the Fed and other central banks around the world pivoting to more accommodative monetary policies. 1 Lower interest rates reduced borrowing costs and spurred greater investor demand for REITs given their typica...

Existing home sales gained strength in the fourth quarter of 2019, with the estimated market capitalization of the existing home market in 49 states for which we have data appearing to have finally surpassed its previous March 2018 peak in November 2019. State-level data for existing homes s...

Housing BOOM! 2 Housing is a very important long leading indicator, and it reflects both the consumer and producer sides of the economy. And this Jan. 19 morning, at least in terms of starts, it hit a grand slam. Total housing starts were 1.608 million units annualized, the highest numbe...

REIT Rankings: Billboards In our REIT Rankings series, we analyze REITs within each of the commercial and residential sectors, focusing on property-level fundamentals and the macroeconomic forces driving overall supply and demand conditions. We then analyze REITs based on both common and...

The rate of growth of new home sale prices in the U.S. has slowed significantly from historical rates. The following chart shows one of our favorite ways to measure that growth rate, tracking the amount of time it has taken for the median new home sale price in the United States to double sinc...

Sign up for Let's Talk ETFs on your favorite podcast platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play Stitcher By Jonathan Liss As the exchange-traded fund space has grown and matured over the better part of nearly three decades, the sheer number of niche sub-sec...

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...