US Diversified Real Estate ETF
$31.95−0.29 (−0.91%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.53%
- Fund size
- $24M
- 1Y return
- +6.7%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 2.64%
- Volume · 30D
- 0M sh
- NAV per share
- $31.99
- 52W range
The ETF.net PPTY Grade
Score 46 of 100 sits in the C band. Bands: A ≥ 70, B ≥ 55, C ≥ 40, D ≥ 25, F < 25; the scale skips E.
Cost
What you pay to own it — the expense ratio plus trading frictions, ranked within its category.FScore 10Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 100Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 40Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.FScore 14Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.AScore 84Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.DScore 38Category rank
Our read on PPTY
CMost US real estate ETFs copy the same cap-weighted REIT list. PPTY runs its own custom index instead, a boutique take on American property that charges more than the giants for the privilege.
The fund uses a passive, index-tracking approach intended to follow the PPTYX – U.S. Diversified Real Estate Index before fees and expenses.
Why people hold it
- Tracks a bespoke benchmark, the PPTYX U.S. Diversified Real Estate Index, that no other fund in its peer group follows. A different basket, not another copy of the standard REIT list.
- Passive by design, and it has hugged that index about as closely as anything in the US real estate group.
- The portfolio is one of the better spread-out books in the category rather than a top-heavy handful of names.
- Straight US property exposure, no foreign landlords, with cash paid out quarterly.
Worth knowing
- The 0.53% fee sits above the 0.37% peer median and far above index heavyweights like SCHH (0.07%) and VNQ (0.13%). Cost is the main reason it lands in the lower half of its group.
- It has stayed one of the smaller, thinner-traded funds in the category since its 2018 launch, so the bid/ask spread is a real part of the cost.
- One sector, one country. Real estate moves on its own rate-driven cycle, and there is nothing here to cushion it.
PPTY Holdings
- Stocks
- —
- 36%
- EQR
Sectors
- Real Estate93.9%
- Consumer Discr.5.1%
- Financials0.6%
- Health Care0.3%
Geography
- United States100.00%
PPTY Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
Returns run to the Sep 22, 2026 close, with cash distributions reinvested. Each period starts on the same date that many months or years earlier. Periods over one year show the average yearly return.
| Period | PPTY |
|---|---|
| Year to date | +8.8% |
| 1 month | −5.0% |
| 3 months | −3.1% |
| 1 year | +6.7% |
| 3 years | +9.3% |
| 5 years | +1.4% |
| 10 years | — |
Calendar-year total return with cash distributions hypothetically reinvested at the ex-dividend date’s closing price. The current year shows year to date.
| Year | Return bar | PPTY |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | +8.8% | |
| 2025 | −3.5% | |
| 2024 | +9.8% | |
| 2023 | +12.6% | |
| 2022 | −26.1% | |
| 2021 | +40.3% | |
| 2020 | −7.2% |
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PPTY Dividends
- 2.64%
- $0.85
- $0.29 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 16, 2026 | Jul 17, 2026 | $0.29 |
| Apr 16, 2026 | Apr 17, 2026 | $0.25 |
| Oct 21, 2025 | Oct 22, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Jul 17, 2025 | Jul 18, 2025 | $0.31 |
| Apr 16, 2025 | Apr 17, 2025 | $0.30 |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Oct 17, 2024 | $0.54 |
| Jul 16, 2024 | Jul 17, 2024 | $0.27 |
| Apr 16, 2024 | Apr 18, 2024 | $0.24 |
| Dec 15, 2023 | Dec 19, 2023 | $0.29 |
| Oct 17, 2023 | Oct 19, 2023 | $0.30 |
| Jul 11, 2023 | Jul 13, 2023 | $0.30 |
| Apr 11, 2023 | Apr 13, 2023 | $0.34 |
PPTY Risk
- 15.5%
How it’s calculated: standard deviation
The sample standard deviation of monthly total returns, multiplied by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Total returns include reinvested distributions.
- 0.29
How it’s calculated: Sharpe ratio
Subtract each month’s Treasury-bill return from the fund’s monthly total return.
Divide the average of those excess returns by their sample standard deviation, then multiply by the square root of 12.
Uses up to 36 complete months, with at least 12 required. Each month uses the Treasury yield quoted at the end of the previous month.
- −32.4%
How it’s calculated: maximum drawdown
The largest percentage decline from an earlier peak, using total returns with reinvested distributions.
Uses up to five years through the last close, with at least 12 months required.
- 0.91
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
PPTY Cost
- The middle half of US Real Estate funds
- Median 0.35%
18 of the 21 US Real Estate funds charge less.