RORE News and Press, Hartford Multifactor REIT ETF From 06/15/20

REIT Performance After May’s -0.38% average total return, the REIT sector has now fallen in 4 out of the first 5 months of 2020. The average REIT has now suffered a painful loss of -27.28% over the first 5 months of 2020. The REIT sector again underperformed the NASDAQ (+6.75%), S...

By Robin Marshall, Director of Fixed Income Research, FTSE Russell Pre-COVID-19, the US housing market appeared robust... Before the COVID-19 shock, several factors combined to suggest the US housing market was more robust than in 2008. These factors were (1) greater financial regulation...

By Luke An Lu, Director, Yield Book Mortgage Research As the COVID-19 pandemic began roiling US markets in March, few areas were hit harder or more swiftly than the commercial real estate ((CRE)) and CMBS markets. At the end of March, we published research demonstrating an already profou...

Many restaurants will not survive the lockdown phase of the coronavirus pandemic. The Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes chain has shut down for good. Some restaurants will try to reopen but not last very long. Other small businesses, such as gyms and yoga studios, will permanently close as well. A...

By Janaki Rao and Monika Carlson As fixed-income markets have started to recover following the massive selloff and liquidity crunch in March, credit risk-transfer securities (CRTs)―agency mortgage securities not guaranteed by Fannie Mae (FNMFM) and Freddie Mac (FMCC)―...

Housing prices will hold fairly steady through the end of 2020, though the number of closed sales will decline moderately. Some market participants will pause to reassess their interest in buying or selling. The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken us all up, and some people will want time to reasse...

By Robert Hughes Housing construction activity sank in April as starts fell by 30.2 percent, while new permits dropped 20.8 percent. Total housing starts dropped to 891,000 at an annual rate from a 1.276 million pace in March, the slowest pace since February 2015. The dominant single-famil...

Originally published on May 18, 2020 The disaster came in two phases: first, the brick-and-mortar meltdown, then COVID-19. Retail property REITs had a huge day in the stock market on Monday. The WOLF STREET market cap-weighted index of nine REITs in this space surged 12.4% on the day! ...

Introduction Housing, as I have written many times, is a long leading indicator, giving a glimpse of the direction of the economy one year and more out. As such, the April report on housing permits and starts, released yesterday morning, sets the baseline both for the impact of the coronavir...

REIT Performance After suffering increasingly painful losses over each of the first 3 months of 2020, the average REIT began to rebound in April with a total return of 10.85%. Even after this double-digit recovery, the average REIT has still suffered a brutal loss of -27.61% over the first...