Housing Derivatives

Are Futures Being Bought or Sold?
Written by Jonathan Smoke   
04.26.2007
A very appropriate and pointed question was poised by Neal Elkin of Real Capital Analytics in the Wednesday afternoon session of the Real Estate Derivatives World. Are derivatives at a point that they are being bought or being sold?

For both commercial and residential real estate derivatives in the U.S. at least, the answer is decidedly that they are being sold. Or should I say they need to be sold.
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New Index on Radar Screen
Written by Jonathan Smoke   
04.25.2007
I read with much interest Jonathan Miller’s post at Matrix regarding the formation of Radar Logic Research and their new proprietary index. And I was very excited to see Radar Logic represented at today's Real Estate Derivatives World.

Radar Logic Incorporated, through its partner Ventana Systems, Inc. a mathematics consulting and software firm, have leveraged methodologies commonly used in the sciences, and applied it to real estate. The objective was to make sense of the national residential housing market by creating a daily housing ‘spot’ price to be used in the trading of real estate derivatives.”
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The Futures of Housing
Written by Jonathan Smoke   
04.23.2007
We decided to launch HousingIntelligence a little ahead of schedule in honor of Real Estate Derivatives World, the first and only event dedicated to Real Estate Derivatives in the USA.

I will be making posts from the conference each day to summarize what I am learning about derivatives and the likely future of derivatives based on US residential real estate.

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