Speaking with BNN Bloomberg’s Andrew Bell on Wednesday, Uma Moriarity, investment strategy analyst and environmental, social and governance lead at CenterSquare Investment Management, said a continued pause in the U.S. Federal Reserve interest rate hikes would be favourable for the real estate sector in the public markets.
“Something we saw play out in 2022, as we saw rates starting increase, was that real estate, given the asset class being more sensitive to interest rates, really pulled back in the public markets — as the public markets really discontented the impacts of the rising rates,” she said.“So going into the other side of the equation, where we’re hoping to see the U.S. Fed to kind of stop from a rate hiking perspective, it makes sense that REIT’s would somewhat reverse that performance.