With significant declines in home prices since 2007, many U.S. households have found the balance of their mortgage exceeding the value of their property. These underwater homes leave owners with the dilemma of continuing to pay on their note or relinquishing their property either through...

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 a static in-sample strategy in Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) futures contracts, we show...