Can the REIT run weather a rate hike?

Can the REIT run weather a rate hike?
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Will higher interest rates crush the real estate market, or is it supposed to be different this time?
MAR 16, 2015
  • Will higher interest rates crush the real estate market, or is it supposed to be different this time? Temporarily derailing REIT returns
  • Those curiously annoying bitcoins are back, and some stock exchanges are starting to take them seriously. A 'vote of confidence' in bitcoin technology
  • Getting to the point of hedge funds, one dot at a time. A quick read that is worth the effort. The Dot Fund LLC
  • Seeing carbon-dioxide emissions unchanged between 2013 and 2014, despite 3.3% global economic growth, has some claiming the regulations are working. Or, maybe there's just no reason to try and connect the two. The planet is fixed.

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