iShares Mortgage Real Estate ETF
$19.43−0.48 (−2.44%)
- Expense ratio
- 0.48%
- Fund size
- $501M
- 1Y return
- −0.1%
- Yield · Last 12 months
- 9.95%
- Holdings
- 30
- Volume · 30D
- 0.5M sh
- NAV per share
- $19.76
- 52W range
The ETF.net REM Grade
Score 63 of 100 sits in the B 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.CScore 54Category rankMission
How faithfully it does the job it claims — tracking its mandate or index with minimal slippage.AScore 97Category rankRisk
How violently it can move — volatility, drawdown depth, and downside capture versus its category.CScore 42Category rankTradability
How cheaply and easily you can get in and out — liquidity, spread, and premium/discount stability.BScore 68Category rankHoldings
What it actually owns — the quality, breadth, and concentration of the underlying portfolio.DScore 28Category rankDurability
Whether it will still be here — the fund’s assets, age, flows, and issuer staying power.AScore 80Category rank
Our read on REM
BMost real estate ETFs buy the landlords. REM buys the lenders: a few dozen US mortgage REITs that hold residential and commercial mortgage debt, packaged in one index-tracking ticker since 2007.
The fund seeks to track an index of U.S. REITs that hold residential and commercial mortgages.
Why people hold it
- A genuinely different engine from the sector's giants: it tracks REITs that hold mortgages, not the equity-REIT landlords inside VNQ, SCHH or XLRE.
- Trading since 2007, so it has run through the housing crash and every rate cycle since on the same rules-based FTSE Nareit mortgage index.
- One ticker instead of hand-picking individual mortgage lenders, from the iShares shelf, moderately traded, with distributions paid quarterly.
Worth knowing
- At 0.48% a year it costs more than the typical real estate ETF (median 0.37%) and multiples of broad REIT funds like SCHH at 0.07% or VNQ at 0.13%.
- Concentrated by design: a few dozen names in one niche, so the largest mortgage lenders carry a big share of the fund.
- Not a stand-in for broad property exposure. It holds the mortgage side of real estate, so it moves with credit and rate conditions more than with rents.
REM Holdings
- Other
- 30
- 78%
- CASH COLLATERAL USD BOASW CFD
Sectors
- Real Estate100.0%
Geography
- United States100.00%
REM Performance
Shows how $10,000 changes over the selected period, with cash distributions reinvested at the closing price on each ex-dividend date.
REM$9,993
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 | REM |
|---|---|
| Year to date | −5.1% |
| 1 month | −7.3% |
| 3 months | −4.1% |
| 1 year | −0.1% |
| 3 years | +4.7% |
| 5 years | −2.9% |
| 10 years | +1.4% |
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 | REM |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | −5.1% | |
| 2025 | +13.4% | |
| 2024 | −0.9% | |
| 2023 | +14.5% | |
| 2022 | −27.4% | |
| 2021 | +16.2% | |
| 2020 | −20.7% |
REM in the news
REM Dividends
- 9.95%
- $1.98
- $0.51 per share
- Quarterly
Distribution history
| Ex-date | Pay date | Amount per share |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 15, 2026 | Sep 18, 2026 | $0.51 |
| Jun 15, 2026 | Jun 18, 2026 | $0.50 |
| Mar 17, 2026 | Mar 20, 2026 | $0.16 |
| Dec 16, 2025 | Dec 19, 2025 | $0.81 |
| Sep 16, 2025 | Sep 19, 2025 | $0.46 |
| Jun 16, 2025 | Jun 20, 2025 | $0.54 |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Mar 21, 2025 | $0.11 |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Dec 20, 2024 | $0.87 |
| Sep 25, 2024 | Sep 30, 2024 | $0.54 |
| Jun 11, 2024 | Jun 17, 2024 | $0.52 |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Mar 27, 2024 | $0.12 |
| Dec 20, 2023 | Dec 27, 2023 | $0.97 |
REM Risk
- 17.6%
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.
- 0.15
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.
- −43.2%
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.
- 1.22
How it’s calculated: beta
The beta figure is supplied by FMP. The comparison index depends on the fund’s broad asset class.
REM Cost
0.48%
REM0.48%
- The middle half of Real Estate Sector funds
- Median 0.53%
2 of the 6 Real Estate Sector funds charge less.