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The REIT sector has fallen in 4 of the first 5 months of 2022, including a -3.51% total return in May. Small cap (-2.26%) and mid cap (-3.46%) REITs outperformed, while large caps (-4.48%) and micro caps (-5.82%) saw deeper losses in May. Only 31.18% of REIT securities had a posit...
Amid mounting recession worries and a return of heart-stopping market volatility, residential REITs - particularly the traditionally countercyclical single-family rentals - should prove to be a source of relative shelter. Single-Family Rental REITs were born from the last economic cri...
Understood to be one of the more "bond-like" and rate-sensitive REIT sectors, net lease REITs have surprisingly been among the best-performing property sectors this year despite the challenging macroeconomic environment. Even with rent growth significantly lagging inflation, net lease...
Mortgage REITs – along with other fixed income-oriented securities across the credit and maturity curve - have stabilized in recent weeks as bond market volatility has calmed following a historically rough early-2022. Earnings results confirmed that the challenging macro enviro...
Shopping Center REITs are the second-best performing major property sector this year - significantly outpacing their mall REIT peers, despite the recent "retail rout" and moderation in stimulus-fueled retail spending trends. After a surge in store closings during the pandemic, the num...
Industrial REITs - a perennial performance leader in recent years - have been slammed over the past month with declines of 20-30% after Amazon announced plans to cut costs in its logistics network. Amazon has pumped the brakes on its aggressive pandemic-fueled footprint expansion...
I invest in real estate and think it’s one of the best long-term investments, beating out the stock market if you were to factor in risk/volatility. In one month, real estate fell 14.7% in parts of Canada and the USA. In fact, the IYR real estate ETF fell 15% as well which help...
U.S. equity markets extended a dismal stretch of declines to seven-straight weeks amid concerns over persistent inflation, slowing growth, and questions over the Fed's ability to engineer a "soft landing." The S&P 500 dipped another 3.0% on the week while the Dow Jones Industrial ...
U.S. equity markets declined for the sixth-straight week after hotter-than-expected inflation reports failed to show significant signs of easing and kept the "pedal to the metal" for Fed monetary tightening. Flirting with "bear-market" territory before paring its declines later in the...
Unable to avoid the broader 'Tech Wreck' weakness, Data Center REITs are among the worst-performing real estate sectors this year with declines of nearly 30% - their steepest drawdown on record. Cloud computing demand remains insatiable and has historically been unaffected by uncertai...
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Another First Trust ETF is switching to VettaFi, bringing the total number of First Trust funds tracking the VettaFi family of indexes to six, representing more than $100m in assets. VettaFi , a data, indexing, digital distribution, and thought leadership company that he...
First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that the shareholders of First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Markets Real Estate Index Fund (NYSE Arca: FFR) (the “Fund”), an exchange-traded fund and a series of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund II (the ...
First Trust Advisors L.P. (“FTA”) announced today that the special shareholder meeting for First Trust FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Markets Real Estate Index Fund (NYSE Arca: FFR) (the “Fund”), a series of First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund II (the “Trust&...