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By Raymond Jacobs, Managing Director, Franklin Real Asset Advisors; Marc Weidner, Managing Director, Franklin Real Asset Advisors; Woon Pin Chong, Managing Director, Franklin Real Asset Advisors Many observe the impacts of e-commerce growth as decimating commercial retail properties, leav...
Homebuilder sentiment for July saw a modest bounce, rising from 64 up to 65 compared to expectations for a reading of 64. While sentiment has seen a nice improvement from its late 2018 low, builders are nowhere near as optimistic right now as they were right before the GOP tax bill - which lim...
Vanguard Extended Duration Treasury ETF ( EDV ) is an ETF for the ultra bond bulls. The ETF with its low costs and extremely long duration bond holdings has delivered amazing results with relatively low volatility. Source: Vanguard EDV's returns from its inception are almost exactly the ...
I wanted to revisit one graph, because I think it tells the story so well about what's happening in many US cities while lending standards are tight. In the process, I realized that I should have adjusted for inflation, and in the process of doing that, I realized I had a minor excel workshe...
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It was supposed to be the Chinese government that was going to rescue the global economy. Once the rationalizations ended and officials around the world realized there was serious economic weakness building at the end of 2018 instead of a globally synchronized inflationary recovery, the green ...
Following up our analysis of the market for existing homes in the U.S., preliminary and revised data suggests that falling mortgage rates have coincided with a reversal in the late-2018, early-2019 decline in new home sales. The following chart tracking the trailing-twelve-month average of...
Since peaking in late November 2018, mortgage rates in the United States have fallen sharply, dropping by more than a percentage point from a peak of an average of 4.87% to 3.83% in June 2019. For existing home sales, the falling interest rates have roughly coincided with a rebound in the ...
Housing Starts Housing starts rose in May to an annual rate of 1.269 million, which was better than expected, with upward revisions to the prior two months that totaled 77,000. The strength is in multi-family units, which were up 13.7% year over year. Single-family home building starts wer...
Bottom Line: OPI is a well-managed and incredibly cheap REIT whose current valuation is far too low for its fundamentals, despite past problems with the company. Introduction Office Properties Income Trust ( OPI ) is one of the most undervalued REITs on the market, in no small part t...
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Mortgage service providers, under a new rule, proposed last week, would be required to delay foreclosures on primary residences until after 2021. This proposed rule would affect all servicing lenders, not just FNMA, FHLB, FHA, and VA mortgages that previously had fallen under the original forb...
Common Shares Will be Listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange Under the New Ticker “RMRM” Beginning on July 30th RMR Real Estate Income Fund (NYSE American: RIF) today announced that it will change its name to “RMR Mortgage Trust” effective July 30, 2020 at 12...
RMR Real Estate Income Fund (NYSE American: RIF) today announced the results of its 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders which was held earlier today as follows: John L. Harrington was re-elected as an Independent Trustee. The final tabulation of the percentage of shareholders’ ...