GQRE vs HAUZ

GQREBNorthern Trust Global Quality Real Estate ETF

HAUZAXtrackers International Real Estate ETF

In short

GQRE Most global real estate funds just buy the sector by size. GQRE screens it first: a Northern Trust index built to maximize quality, value and momentum across US and overseas REITs, at 0.45% net of a waiver through March 1, 2027.

HAUZ The bargain passport for property: HAUZ owns real estate companies everywhere except the US, developed and emerging alike, for 0.10% a year. One of the cheapest ways to own the rest of the world's landlords.

Stated mandate

GQRE The Fund seeks to track the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Northern Trust Global Quality Real Estate Index.

HAUZ The fund seeks investment results that generally correspond to the performance of an iSTOXX Developed and Emerging benchmark.

Why people hold it

• GQRE The index is built to maximize quality, value and momentum inside the real estate universe, with the quality score reading profitability, cash flow and management strength.flexshares.com
• Genuinely global: US plus overseas names, REITs and real estate operating companies, where peers HAUZ (0.10%) and VNQI (0.12%) stop outside the US.flexshares.com
• Trading since 2013 with roughly 200 holdings and quarterly payouts, it sits in the upper half of its global real estate peer group.

• HAUZ Charges 0.10% a year against a 0.50% median for global real estate funds, undercutting even the low-cost giants VNQI (0.12%) and REET (0.14%).
• The US is deliberately left out. The index covers developed and emerging markets outside America, so it sits beside a domestic REIT holding instead of doubling it.dws.com
• About 400 holdings across dozens of markets, weighted by free float, so it owns the world's big listed property names rather than making country bets.dws.com
• Running since 2013 as a plain index tracker, and its portfolio lines up closely with the benchmark it promises.

Worth knowing

• GQRE 0.45% net of a waiver through March 1, 2027 (0.46% gross) sits near the category median, above trackers REET (0.14%) and DFGR (0.21%, waived through February 28, 2027).
• One of the quieter tickers in its category, so the gap between bid and ask can matter more here than with the category's most traded names.
• One sector, and a rate-sensitive one: fund documents flag real estate concentration risk, and the factor screen can send it well away from a plain cap-weighted REIT basket.flexshares.com

• HAUZ One sector, one theme. Property equities move with interest rates and credit, and this fund's swings have been wider than most of what we grade.
• Distributions arrive once or twice a year, not monthly, so the income shows up lumpy.
• Moderate trading volume rather than headline volume, which can mean wider bid-ask spreads than the busiest global real estate funds.

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