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The median sale prices of new homes sold in the U.S. rose faster than median household income in August 2021. Median household income in August 2021 is 18.4% of the median new home sale price. A mortgage payment for a median new home has been rising faster than median household in...
Bonds sold off again last week, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury closing over 1.6% for the first time since early June. But this rise in rates is at least a little different than the fall that preceded it. When nominal rates fell from April through July, real rates fell right al...
Home prices appreciated by four to five percent per year from 2013 through the first half of 2020. Since the end of 2019, home prices in the United States have risen a whopping 24%, averaged across all regions of the country. For the economy as a whole, a retreat of home prices wo...
Despite reporting stellar results throughout the year, Manufactured Housing REITs' remarkable streak of eight straight years of outperformance over the REIT Index is suddenly in doubt entering the fourth quarter. Pressured by concerns over rising rates, inflation, and the broader rota...
The post-lockdown recovery has been powerful, and most developed economies have seen double-digit gross domestic product (GDP) rebounds from 2020 lows. The reopening trade should resume in coming months. The cyclical stocks that comprise the value factor are reporting stronger earning...
The future of work is here, and nearly everyone besides office landlords are quite content. For office REITs, the "new normal" of hybrid work environments brings both new challenges and opportunities. Eighteen months after "two weeks to slow the spread," office utilization r...
Global asset markets have never been more overvalued, leveraged and interconnected in our lifetimes. This presents a massive instability risk for all of us, whether we appreciate it or not. The corporate sector has never been more indebted (less resilient to negative shocks) as a perc...
Triple-net leases are an amazing way to obtain a low-maintenance, high-margin income stream. Since the announcement of effective vaccines, net lease REITs in aggregate have outperformed the stock market. REITs' share of all marketed single-tenant net lease sales YTD has diminished...
Janus Henderson Group (JHG) to close and liquidate The Long-Term Care ETF as a result of a standard review of the firm’s exchange-traded product line-up.Subject to applicable law, the Fund will no longer accept creation orders after the close of business on October 11, 2021.Tradi...
Like it or not, capital gain prospects for stocks in U.S. equities markets are all directly comparable with one another, and investors who need those gains need to make comparisons. The comparability comes from big-money transaction pressures by competing “Institutional”...