Real Estate Weekly Review
The major US equity indexes delivered their worst week of 2019 after a new curveball was thrown into trade discussions between China and the United States with the implementation of new 25% tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods. REITs (VNQ and IYR) were among the best-performing equity sectors on the week, ending the week lower by roughly 1%, just the third down-week in the past eighteen weeks. Helping to boost the yield-sensitive sectors of the equity market, cooler-than-expected inflation data pulled down the 10-year yield to the lowest