Previous 10 | Next 10 |
By Jill Mislinski Friday's release of the February New Home Sales from the Census Bureau came in at 667K, up 4.9% month-over-month from a revised 636K in January. Here is the opening from the report: Data collection and processing were delayed for this indicator release due to th...
Here are some graphs of price/rent ratios, by zip code, for several metro areas. (All x-axes have the same 2013 rental value, while the y-axes represent the estimated price/rent ratio for each year.) The data is from the inestimable Zillow.com. Price/rent ratios before 2010 are based on my e...
By Jill Mislinski This morning the National Association of Realtors released the February data for their Pending Home Sales Index. Here is an excerpt from the latest press release: Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, said February's pending home sales decline is coming off a solid gain i...
By Steve Shigekawa, Senior Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group, Brian Jones, Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group, Anton Kwang, Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group, and Gillian Tiltman, Portfolio Manager - The REIT Group Think listed real estate is dull, defensive and exposed to rising rates?...
By Robert Hughes Housing construction activity slowed in February as starts fell by 8.7 percent. Total housing starts dropped to a 1.162 million annual rate from a 1.273 million pace in January. The dominant single-family segment, which accounts for about three-fourths of new home construc...
San Francisco Bay Area House prices -4.3%, condos -5.7% since July, Seattle house prices -5.9%, most since Housing Bust 1; Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Portland, New York condos, even Boston decline. Dallas ticks up. The most obvious one was Seattle. Now it's joined by a second most...
By Greg Kuhl, CFA & Guy Barnard, CFA & Tim Gibson Tim Gibson, Guy Barnard and Greg Kuhl, Portfolio Managers for the Global Property Equities strategy, discuss how REITs can provide a way to capitalize on aging populations. The "silver tsunami" metaphor is frequently used to descr...
I had a nice conversation with Josiah Neeley of the R Street Institute and Doug McCullough of the Lone Star Policy Institute on their podcast "Urbane Cowboys". Elsewhere, Emily Hamilton, a research fellow at the Mercatus Center, was on the Marketplace Morning Report, on NPR, discussing ...
Introduction With this morning’s release of housing permits and starts for February, this series has finally been brought back up to date following the government shutdown. Let’s take a look, bearing in mind that interest rates turn first before sales, and sales turn before pri...
The REIT market is very top heavy, the top 25 names make up over half of the market and the top three sectors are just under half. Any index that is market cap-weighted will be heavily concentrated in these names and sectors. Most REIT strategies are very index-like, with active share in the...
News, Short Squeeze, Breakout and More Instantly...
UBS AG ZC SP ETN REDEEM 05/05/2045 USD 25 Company Name:
LRET Stock Symbol:
NYSE Market:
Zamansky LLC is investigating UBS Financial Services Inc. (UBS), the broker-dealer, over possible sale practice violations which resulted in losses to investors in ETRACs (Symbols: HDLV, SMHD, DVHL, CEFL, CEFZ, BDCL, LBDC, MORL, MRRL, LRET, MLPQ, HOML, MLPZ, LMLP and WTID). UBS ETRACs are exc...
UBS Investment Bank (NYSE:UBS): UBS Investment Bank today announced coupon payments for 26 ETRACS Exchange Traded Notes (the “ETNs”), all traded on the NYSE Arca. * The table above provides a hyperlink to the relevant prospectus and supplements thereto for each of our ...
DVYL: linked to the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index SDYL: linked to the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index MORL: linked to the Market Vectors Global Mortgage REITs Index DVHL: linked to the NYSE Diversified High Income Index CEFL: linked to the ISE High ...