Equity Residential Stock News

REITs have rallied strongly recently, with a 7.93% increase in the past 3 months. Recent economic data suggests rate cuts have changed sentiment towards the real estate sector rapidly. Blue chip REITs still offer upside potential, with UDR, Rexford, and Invitation Homes standing out as potential best values.

U.S. equity markets rallied while benchmark interest rates remained near the lows of the year after a critical slate of inflation data showed further encouraging signs of cooling price pressures. The Consumer Price Index posted a downside surprise for a fourth straight month, underscored by a "2-Handle" on Headline CPI, which follows a period of historically high inflation from 2021 to 2023. Sp...

Fortune.com recently reported that renter households in the US rose by 1.9% in the second quarter, 3x the increase of homeowner households. It is the third consecutive quarter where this happened, suggesting that rental REITs to buy could be a wise investment in the year's second half.

Equity Residential bought 11 apartments with 3572 units from Blackstone for $964 million, expanding its presence in Dallas, Denver, and Atlanta. Public apartment REITs are trading below asset value, with substantial differences in pricing based on location and quality of properties. Multifamily REITs like BSRTF, NXRT, CSR, and CPT are considered the most compelling investments in the sector, bu...

In a highly volatile week across global financial markets, U.S. equity markets ultimately finished the week little-changed, while benchmark interest rates rebounded from the lowest levels of the year. Following a historic surge in volatility, stabilization in Asian and European markets, decent jobless claims data, and clarity on the domestic Presidential matchup helped to ease market jitters. N...

Shares of Equity Residential (EQR) fell Wednesday after the real estate investment trust (REIT) announced it had agreed to purchase 11 apartment properties from Blackstone's (BX) real estate unit in separate deals valued at approximately $964 million.

U.S. equity markets tumbled in a volatile week, while benchmark interest rates plunged by the most since December 2008 after employment data showed decisive evidence of weakening labor market conditions. Volatility was amplified by a confluence of central bank policy decisions, a hit-and-miss slate of corporate earnings results, an intensification of geopolitical risks, and a re-pricing of dome...

The next cycle for public REITs could be more similar to those of the 1990s and early 2000s than one of the past 14 years. In prior cycles, public REITs enjoyed a cost of capital that allowed for significant external growth, boosting cash flow and dividends per share. Many companies spent the past cycle shoring up their balance sheets to record low leverage and maintaining a low dividend payout...