AvalonBay Communities Stock News

The Fed is expected to cut interest rates later this month. This should greatly benefit REITs. Here are 2 REITs that we expect to surge in value as rates are cut.

U.S. equity markets posted their worst week since March 2023 while benchmark interest rates tumbled to eighteen-month lows after employment data indicated a further cooling in economic momentum. Among several disappointing reports, BLS Nonfarm Payrolls data showed that the U.S. economy added just 142k jobs in August, while prior months were again revised sharply lower. Snapping a four-week winn...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC. (NYSE: AVB) (the “Company”) announced today that Benjamin W. Schall, the Company's CEO and President, and select members of the Company's management team will be participating in a roundtable discussion at Bank of America's Global Real Estate Conference on Tuesday, September 10, 2024, at 10:20 A.M. Eastern Time. During this event, man...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC. (NYSE: AVB) (the “Company”) announced today that it has priced an underwritten public offering of 3,200,000 shares of common stock, all of which are being offered in connection with the forward sale agreements described below, for expected gross proceeds of approximately $710.4 million. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Deutsc...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC. (NYSE: AVB) (the “Company”) announced today that it is commencing an underwritten public offering of 3,200,000 shares of common stock in connection with the forward sale agreements described below. Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, BofA Securities, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Morgan Stanley are acting as joint book-running managers for t...

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVALONBAY COMMUNITIES, INC. (NYSE: AVB) (the “Company”) today provided an update on certain third quarter Same Store Residential operating metrics. The Same Store Residential operating metrics presented in the following tables were generally consistent with the Company's expectations for these metrics for the two months ended August 31, 2024 when the Company pub...

AvalonBay owns and manages residential properties, with a focus on the West and East Coast markets. It has low leverage, strong liquidity, and a track record of good past performance. However, the current valuation and the decelerating rental rate growth create an opportunity risk for investors.

Rates down, REITs up? Two years of persistent rate-driven pressure on residential and commercial real estate markets appears to finally be abating as the worst of pandemic-era inflationary pressures subside. Since the "pivot' in early July, the REIT Index has outpaced the S&P 500 by 10 percentage points. Despite this rebound, REITs still have 35 percentage points of "catch-up" to do. REITs aren...