ETF Base: Real estate investment trusts come in all shapes and sizes. Mortgage REITs give investors high-yield exposure. Retail REITs reward investors with exposure to consumption Read more…

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Ron Rowland: I’ve spent my investment career following sector momentum, and it’s worked out pretty well. ETFs make it even better. Right now my indicators show a lot of short-term strength in real estate. Personally, I find it hard to believe the housing market has truly bottomed. My colleague Read more…

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Jim Trippon: Much has been written about China’s property sector (NYSEARCA:TAO), with the loudest voices of China bears (NYSEARCA:FXP) calling it a bubble that will collapse not only the industry, but the country’s entire economy. Less extreme are other voices that note China has an overheated property Read more…

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Michael Johnston: After a record-setting October gave investors hope that 2011 would finish on a strong note, the first couple weeks of November have effectively taken any wind out of those sails. The culprit–surprise, surprise–has been the cash-strapped PIIGS economies of Europe, with Italy now grabbing Read more…

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David Fry: Our goal in this profile is to help investors wade through the many competing ETF offerings available. Using our long experience as an ETF publication, and nearly 40 years in the Read more…

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Jared Cummans: The housing sector has been rather difficult to predict in the past few years. Once the U.S. housing bubble burst and the Great Recession began, investors pulled out of a number of domestic Read more…

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Eric Dutram: With a weak consumer economy and a lack of job creation, concerns are once again beginning to return to the housing industry. For the 10 City Case-Shiller index, prices are down year-over-year in non seasonally adjusted terms for the most recent reading, leading to a dreaded double dip for many markets Read more…

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David Zeiler:  Dragged down by such anchors as a bulging pipeline of foreclosures and a dearth of buyers, it will be many more months – if not years – before a housing market rebound takes hold. Read more…

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Ron Rowland:  Index IQ rolled out the first small cap U.S. REIT ETF last week (6/14/11).  IQ US Real Estate Small Cap ETF (NYSE:ROOF) intends to provide income and complement large cap REIT exposure. Read more…

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As the number of foreclosures around the nation continues to climb, a massive flooding of these homes into the market could result in a supply shock which could eventually depress real estate Read more…

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Despite woes in residential real estate, the commercial real estate sector appears to be showing signs of stabilization shinning a light on the iShares Dow Jones US Real Estate (NYSE:IYR), Read more…

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“In mid-2009 we asked whether real estate investment trust ETFs had priced in a predicted tidal wave of commercial real estate foreclosures. We concluded prices had fallen so far they could well Read more…

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“Over the past year, the real estate sector has been on somewhat of a roller coaster ride as the federal government has poured billions of dollars worth of incentives its way to add stability Read more…

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Brandon Clay From Invest With An Edge talks real estate for 2010:  The year 2009 brought a stellar rebound to US equity markets, with all the major sectors gaining ground.  The most impressive returns happened in areas hardest hit during the late-2008 Read more…

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“Domestic REIT investors have four ETFs to choose among. Though there are more exchange-traded funds available, the big four offer diversification Read more…

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