USRT News and Press, iShares Core U.S. REIT From 01/16/24

2024-01-16 04:50:00 ET Summary Why US banks could be poised for a rebound? Sectors primed for a pivot if the Fed cuts. The outlook for healthcare and real estate. The potential for interest rate cuts this year by the U.S. Federal Reserve is raising the outlook for ...

2024-01-14 11:32:29 ET Summary The REIT sector closed the year out strong with a +11.40% total return in December, pushing into positive territory for the full year (+8.66%). Small cap REITs (+13.39%) outperformed in December. Large cap REITs (+9.55%) averaged a lower return than ...

2024-01-14 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets resumed their rally this week, while interest rates fell sharply after a critical slate of inflation data pointed towards a continuing "normalization" of inflation towards pre-pandemic levels. While CPI data was best characterized...

2024-01-12 02:25:00 ET Summary Prospective home buyers face high prices and elevated borrowing costs, while homeowners refrain from listing their properties. As global central banks raised interest rates to tame inflation, home prices have cooled relative to the start of the hikin...

2024-01-11 09:00:00 ET Summary Apartment REITs were among the weakest-performing property sectors for a second-straight year in 2023 - lagging even the battered office sector - despite delivering another year of mid-single-digit earnings growth. Following two years of record-setti...

2024-01-11 06:05:00 ET Summary Hype in the media about real estate going to the moon or whatever is a never-ending drama. Mortgage demand jumps nearly 10% to start the year, even as interest rates tick up again. People are seeing lower mortgage rates on the horizon, and they d...

2024-01-09 09:00:00 ET Summary New homes became more unaffordable for the typical American household in November 2023. Median household income was $76,791, which was up from October 2023's initial estimate of $76,588. We already know the average interest rate on a conventional...

2024-01-09 03:16:00 ET Summary In December, we (my wife and I) received a dividend income total of $10,193.04. Crossed the $10k threshold, again. Vanguard’s High Dividend Yield ETF, which we have been buying for 3.5 years, literally has paid immense dividends. In total,...

2024-01-08 22:35:00 ET Summary Many months ago it became abundantly clear that the Fed had extinguished the inflation fires that were stoked in 2020-21, and therefore lower interest rates were called for. More recently, we see that the economy has lost a lot of its forward momentu...

2024-01-07 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets stumbled on the first week of the new year as investors parsed employment data that gave conflicting signals on the state of the U.S. economy. Employment data showed a continued cooling in wage pressures, but the steady pace of hi...