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NETL NET Lease Corporate Real Estate ETF

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Looking for investing in net lease US real estate equities? In some case NETL ETF could be a good choice. NETL is the first ETF on the market that focuses on the specific type of REIT; net lease real estate. A "net lease" is an arrangement that requires the tenant to pay all or a portion of the taxes, fees, and maintenance costs for a property in addition to rent. NETL tracks the performance of The Fundamental Income Net Lease Real Estate Index (NETLXT) is a rules-based, passive index that defines and tracks the performance of the rapidly expanding Net Lease real estate sector in a diversified manner. There is a good analysis of pro and contra of NETL by Cashflow Capitalist that not let us to say more.

VNQ Vanguard Real Estate ETF vs SPY

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Growth of Hypothetical $10,000 VNQ vs SPY. No dividend reinvesting, no rebalancing. The time period was constrained by the available data for Vanguard Real Estate ETF (VNQ) Oct 2004 - Dec 2020. VNQ tracks a broad index that captures much of the US real estate market. The fund holds a deep basket and its market-cap allocations mirror those of our neutral benchmark. The only place it deviates is the persistent sector bias away from specialized REITs in favor of commercial REITs.As a result of excellent portfolio management, at times, the cost of owning VNQ has even been lower than its stated expense ratio. The only blemish we see is the fact that Vanguard discloses holdings monthly rather than daily. However, this is a nuisance at most in a low-turnover fund, and immaterial to many investors. As with peer REIT ETFs, distributions from the fund are taxed as ordinary income.Prior to February 1, 2018 the fund tracked the MSCI US REIT Index. During the period of February 1 to July ...

FREL Fidelity MSCI Real Estate Index ETF vs SPY

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Growth of hypothetical $10,000 FREL vs SPY. No dividend reinvesting, no rebalancing. The time period was constrained by the available data for Fidelity MSCI Real Estate ETF (FREL) Mar 2015 - Dec 2020. The FREL ETF seeks to provide investment returns that correspond, before fees and expenses, generally to the performance of the MSCI USA IMI Real Estate 25/25 Index. Investing at least 80% of assets in securities included in the fund's underlying index. The fund's underlying index is the MSCI USA IMI Real Estate 25/25 Index, which represents the performance of the real estate sector in the U.S. equity market. Using a representative sampling indexing strategy to manage the fund. "Representative sampling" is an indexing strategy that involves investing in a representative sample of securities that collectively has an investment profile similar to the index. The securities selected are expected to have, in the aggregate, investment character...

IYR iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF vs SPY

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Growth of Hypothetical $10,000 IYR vs SPY. No dividend reinvesting, no rebalancing. The time period was constrained by the available data for iShares US Real Estate ETF (IYR) Jul 2000 - Dec 2020. The IYR seeks to track the investment results of the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index.The fund generally invests at least 90% of its assets in securities of the underlying index and in depositary receipts representing securities of the underlying index. The underlying fund measures the performance of the real estate sector of the U.S. equity market and may include large-, mid- or small-capitalization companies. On November 24, 2020, iShares filed to change the underlying index for the iShares U.S. Real Estate ETF (NYSE Arca: IYR). Beginning on or around January 25, 2021 , the fund will seek to track a new underlying index, the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Capped Index, and will cease to track the Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index. Dow Jones U.S. Real...

Apartment List National Rent Report

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Rent Growth since March 2020 - November 2020 As the most-expensive and most-impacted city in the country, San Francisco leads the pack. With a rent decline of 24.5 percent since March, the median 2-bedroom apartment in San Francisco has dropped from $3,147 to $2,377. Following San Francisco as a cluster of expensive coastal markets that have also been heavily impacted. Seattle and Boston had the nation’s most dramatic November rent drops (5.6 percent and 5.2 percent, respectively), pushing them past New York which had previously occupied the number 2 spot throughout most of the summer. Today, Seattle ranks second with a 19.1 percent rent decline since March, Boston ranks third, New York City falls to fourth, and San Jose rounds out the top five. All of the cities in this list have lost more than 10 percent of their rent prices during the pandemic months.