A few months ago, I ran across an intriguing opportunity – a real estate-related exchange-traded fund (or ETF) – that I’d like to share with readers, subscribers, and members alike.
It’s an investing concentration I’ll admit I don’t write about very often. So far this year (excluding this article), I’ve only published two pieces on it:
- “Selecting the Best ETF in This Coronavirus World” on March 27
- “No REIT ETF Is Pandemic-Proof, but These 3 Are Close” on April 8.
Before that, the last time I touched the topic was as a year-end recap story on Dec. 21, 2019. “A Banner Year for Real Estate ETFs” included the following points:
- “More than $5 billion has poured into U.S. real estate EFTs this year.”
- “‘Goldilocks’ economic conditions of low interest rates and steady, domestic-led economic growth have been an ideal backdrop for commercial and residential real estate equities.”
- “Innovation in the real estate ETF space has enabled investors to customize their portfolios more specifically to their needs, objectives, and existing exposures.”
And then it featured this paragraph in the intro:
“While the real estate sector has taken its foot off the gas pedal a bit over the last few months, 2019 will likely still go down as [a] banner year for the U.S. real estate sector…”
All put together, it was “the best year for inflows since 2016, coming after $2.6 billion in outflows last year.”
Room to Grow
Doesn’t all that data make you just want to sigh over “the good old days?”
Oh, 2019. We took you for granted while you lasted, and then you went away, never to come back again.
On the plus side, 2020 will find that same fate in another six months. At this rate, I don’t see many of us feeling all that nostalgic about
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