This paper examines the anatomy of a real estate bubble. In the process, we identify three phases of the market’s evolution: in the first phase, a large percentage of transactions are speculative or “flips” causing prices to rapidly increase; in phase two, flipping loses its profitability;...

This paper examines the use of futures contracts to hedge residential real estate price risk. We examine whether existing futures contacts can effectively be used to offset volatility in national house prices. Little evidence of any simple systematic relation between national prices and futures...

This paper extends the existing literature on managing house price risk. While previous work finds that a hedger would have reduced a large amount of variance in housing returns in Las Vegas, Nevada using Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) futures contracts, we show that neither static nor...