New ETFs lets investors place bets on home prices |
Posted at The LA Realty Report by Johnny Burke
Jul. 3, 2009
Categorized in: real estate investing
Have you thought about buying a house, but worried about further price drops? What if you think the bottom is no where in sight? Or you own property and want a way to protect your equity? This article from Marketwatch addresses the current financial crisis which Robert Schiller describes as " a failure to manage housing risk." This should be required reading for homeowners, and investors alike, for the same reason commodity futures markets were created- to hedge risk.
