During the decade leading up to the downturn, some small investors put their money into a special type of real-estate investment trust, ones that aren't traded on an exchange but promised steady dividends.
A controversial real-estate investment is getting a makeover—and while the critics still aren't sold, some advisers say it is worth considering for investors comfortable with the risks.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Investors’ hunger for income, which has driven billions of dollars of assets into dividend-focused funds, is now bringing forth a new investment product: multi-asset-class income vehicles.
Investors piled into the stocks of small real-estate companies during the first quarter, an indication that the improving economy is encouraging investors to take on more risk.
Sterne, Agee & Leach After hearing several justifications for the recent rally in mortgage-real-estate-investment-trust valuations ahead of the "summer slump" in general equity markets, we remind investors that 2012, being an election ...
If you can't beat them, join them. That's exactly what a growing contingent of companies unable to match the stock-market performance of real-estate investment trusts are doing.
The housing market may be flat on its back, but real-estate investment trusts are doing just fine, thank you. The FTSE Nareit index (the index of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts) turned in a nice 7.3% gain in 2011, ...
Facing a dearth of new-home construction, the U.K. real-estate industry and government are looking at ways to encourage the formation of new real-estate investment trusts that would focus on subsidized housing.
MKM Partners Real-estate investment trusts and home-building stocks have seen a healthy consolidation phase this month. The sideways-to-lower price action has allowed the iShares Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index Fund (ticker: IYR) and SPDR ...
An arbitrator has ordered a well-known Long Island investment advisor to pay damages related to its sale of a real estate investment product that's come under increasing scrutiny.
PALO ALTO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Nearly every retirement portfolio should contain real estate, but most investors can’t buy a building. Fortunately, it’s easy to own property without ever fixing a toilet, or worrying about a roof caving in ...
There are opportunities within large-cap multinationals. Plus, what financial steps heirs need to take after a parent dies. And, a look at REITs. Dow Jones Wealth Adviser's Veronica Dagher reports.
In the aftermath of the worst housing crisis in a generation, more people are eschewing the American dream of homeownership and embracing apartment rentals in the still-fragile economy.