WREI News and Press, Invesco Wilshire US REIT From 02/01/19

By Paul W. Varunok, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group The US housing market is starting to cool off a bit, but the big question is whether there are cracks in its foundation. Paul Varunok, head of Securitized Assets with Franklin Templeton Fix...

Income-producing real estate has historically generated higher returns with lesser risk than most stocks, while providing valuable diversification benefits. In fact, from 1997 until 2016, real estate ( VNQ ) produced up to 4x higher total returns than the S&P 500 ( SPY ): Source ...

Seattle prices drop 5.1% in five months, most since Housing Bust 1; San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Portland all decline. This is the most obvious one: Seattle. House prices in the Seattle metro dropped 0.7% in November from prior month, according to the Case-Shille...

As best as we can tell, the residential real estate market in the U.S. peaked in March 2018, where since that month, it has declined in 33 of 40 states for which we have recent price and sales data. That's going by our estimate for the total aggregate value of transactions for existing home ...

Investors from mainland China were net sellers of $854M of U.S. commercial real estate in Q4, the third consecutive quarter that Chinese investors sold more U.S. property they bought and the longest stretch that they've been net sellers, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing Real Capital...

As Hedgeye subscribers already know, our predictive tracking algorithms are calling for the U.S. economy to transition from Quad 4 (growth and inflation slowing) to Quad 3 later this year (growth slowing, inflation accelerating) . As a result, we view REITs as one of the best long pla...