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REIT Rankings: Apartments In our REIT Rankings series, we introduce and update readers to each of the residential and commercial real estate sectors. We focus on sector-level fundamentals, analyzing supply and demand conditions and macroeconomic factors driving underlying performance. We...
The best time to size up the collapse in housing that I called almost two years ago will be when it is over - so we can visualize its full extent. Since it is now over by some measures, though not by others, this might be as good as we get for a while as a moment when we can pause to take a ...
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) returned 29% in 2019, supported primarily by the Fed and other central banks around the world pivoting to more accommodative monetary policies. 1 Lower interest rates reduced borrowing costs and spurred greater investor demand for REITs given their typica...
For income investors, closed-end funds, or CEFs, are an attractive investment class that offers high income generally in the range of 6%-10%, broad diversification in terms of a variety of asset classes, and market matching total returns in the long term if selected carefully and acquired at r...
Existing home sales gained strength in the fourth quarter of 2019, with the estimated market capitalization of the existing home market in 49 states for which we have data appearing to have finally surpassed its previous March 2018 peak in November 2019. State-level data for existing homes s...
Housing BOOM! 2 Housing is a very important long leading indicator, and it reflects both the consumer and producer sides of the economy. And this Jan. 19 morning, at least in terms of starts, it hit a grand slam. Total housing starts were 1.608 million units annualized, the highest numbe...
The rate of growth of new home sale prices in the U.S. has slowed significantly from historical rates. The following chart shows one of our favorite ways to measure that growth rate, tracking the amount of time it has taken for the median new home sale price in the United States to double sinc...
Sign up for Let's Talk ETFs on your favorite podcast platform: Apple Podcasts Spotify Google Play Stitcher By Jonathan Liss As the exchange-traded fund space has grown and matured over the better part of nearly three decades, the sheer number of niche sub-sec...
Author's note : This article was released to CEF/ETF Income Laboratory members on December 17, 2019. Chemist's Closed-End Fund Report Quantitative screens help to rapidly narrow down attractive candidates from the database of 500-plus closed-end funds [CEFs] for further due diligence ...
Below is an updated look at home price changes across the country using the most recent S&P Case Shiller home price indices. As shown, the National index rose just 10 basis points month over month and 3.34% year over year. Notably, the number of cities that saw rising and falling home pric...
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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’ ...