XLRE holds data center REITs including Equinix and Digital Realty that benefit from AI infrastructure spending. Declining interest rates compress cap rates and raise property valuations through lower ...

Asia Pacific’s commercial real estate market posted a strong start to the year, with investment volume rising 11% year-on-year to US$33 billion in the first quarter of 2025, according to CBRE’s latest ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Navin is a Colorado-based journalist who writes about stocks. Real estate stocks benefit greatly from interest rate cuts, if ...

When rates begin to fall, securities like bonds tend to look less effective and attractive due to their low yields. And as investors get closer to retirement, fixed-income securities like bonds may ...

Conventional wisdom has long said: where interest rates go, cap rates soon follow. In other words, when the cost of capital is high, so too is the ratio of a property’s net operating income to its ...

After years of underperforming the S&P 500 index, and most especially the technology sector, real estate investment trusts (REITs) are back in the game. With the Federal Reserve now set to lower ...

Rate-sensitive parts of the stock market were outperforming on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve's first rate cut of this year. The small-cap Russell 2000 index was up about 1.4% to around 2,436, ...

Last September the Federal Reserve finally made its long-awaited interest rate cut, sparking optimism among many in the city's real estate industry that activity ranging from homebuying to investment ...

Over the past few years, we have observed an inverse relationship between share prices in the REIT sector and interest-rate movements. We believe a major reason is that all commercial real estate ...