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Values Have Dropped Less Than 25% of the Fall Required To Reach Trend by Michael David White
PRICE TRENDS / WAR OF THE WORLDS (Part 4): Property owners nationwide have lost only one dollar for every four dollars they can ultimately expect to lose on their home. The good news according to the leading data series issued by the United States government is that prices have only fallen 6... More »
November 11, 2009 • DMM, FNM, FRE
Conservative Property Index Predicts We Are Less Than Half Way Through Fall by Michael David White
Price Trends / The most conservative price data on residential properties predicts that values have fallen from the peak less than half of the way towards their long-term trend. The total projected fall from Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) data shows a peak-to-trend fall of... More »
November 8, 2009 • DMM, FNM, FRE
Property Values Set to Fall 43% From Current Depressed Level by Michael David White
Price Trends / WAR OF THE WORLDS: If you use a 20-year time horizon, and assume prices will return to the trend line, then our residential property bubble will bottom after values fall over 40% from current levels (see above (c) aka “(y) - (z)” aka “Loss Today to... More »
November 1, 2009 • RWR, RWX, IYR
Three Red Flags for REITs by SmartStops.net
By Kevin Grewal, Editorial Director at SmartStops.netOver the past week or two, real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been the talk of the Street as many earnings reports beat analyst expectations, injecting even more optimism to a sector that has already been fired up. As a result of... More »
August 13, 2009 • FRI, VNQ, RWR
What Controls Macroshares Fund Prices by yuman
Macroshares currently offers two paired funds, Major Metro Housing Up (UMM) and Down (DMM), and promises to roll out similar ones every year. I refer to them as funds because they trade like ETFs. They are different from EFTs in many ways and there are volumes on this site arguing over their... More »
August 6, 2009 • DMM, UMM, IYR
The Mall REIT Bankruptcies Start by Hedged In
Today's news:Mall giant General Growth Properties (GGP) files for bankruptcy, marking one of the largest-ever real estate failures in U.S. history. Shares -57.2% premarket to $0.45.So there it is. If you haven't read this, read it now. More »
April 16, 2009 • RTL, FRI, ICF
An Insider's View of Commercial Real Estate by Hedged In
I was chatting this afternoon with a significant player in the NY commercial real estate market. His comments were interesting; here they are:We haven't hit bottom in the commercial real estate market.Almost every deal done in the last four years is now under water.Shopping malls are... More »
April 9, 2009 • RTL, FRI, ICF
How Hard are Shopping Malls Being Hit by the Recession? by Hedged In
From the NY Times:In these desperate days in American retailing, mall owners are seizing on a new gimmick: wave-making machines. As the recession deepens, what does the future hold for suburban shopping centers?A half-dozen malls across the country are planning to install a huge contraption... More »
April 7, 2009 • IYR, RTL, FRI

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First Trust S&P REIT Index Fund (FRI)

Instablog posts on FRI

Values Have Dropped Less Than 25% of the Fall Required To Reach Trend by Michael David White

Conservative Property Index Predicts We Are Less Than Half Way Through Fall by Michael David White

Property Values Set to Fall 43% From Current Depressed Level by Michael David White

Three Red Flags for REITs by SmartStops.net

What Controls Macroshares Fund Prices by yuman

The Mall REIT Bankruptcies Start by Hedged In

An Insider's View of Commercial Real Estate by Hedged In

How Hard are Shopping Malls Being Hit by the Recession? by Hedged In

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