The paper extends the work of Poterba (1984, 1991) and Voicu and Seiler (2011) by mathematically deriving the optimum rent versus buy decision without any information relating to expected home price appreciation or risk premia. Using Chicago Mercantile Exchange housing futures contracts, this...

Households that contemplate moving to different cities or trading up/down in the future are exposed to substantial housing risk. In order to mitigate this risk, we derive optimal portfolios using CME housing futures. Housing investment risk is hedged by selling housing futures amounting to the...

The trading volume of Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) housing futures remains thin despite efforts to increase the prevalence of pricing models and the derivation of optimal portfolios for households. We apply actual CME data to the theoretical models of Voicu and Seiler (2012) to demonstrate...

Households that contemplate moving to different cities or trading up/down in the future are exposed to substantial housing risk. In order to mitigate this risk, we derive optimal portfolios using CME housing futures. Housing investment risk is hedged by selling housing futures amounting to the...

This study introduces a new publicly traded real estate security known as an ETF REIT short share. In addition to examining the return, correlation, autocorrelation, partial-order autocorrelation, stationarity, and Granger Causality characteristics of this new investment vehicle, we demonstrate...

This teaching case provides students with an opportunity to evaluate the series of cash flows associated with a residential real estate investment, while simultaneously probing unique aspects of legal and ethical issues confronting the potential investment. The case also introduces students to...

The purpose of this study is to refine the real estate service quality scale, called RESERV, developed by Nelson and Nelson (1995). RESERV is examined for scale parsimony and for items measuring service expectations. This study is the first to simultaneously compare the three types of service...

This study empirically confirms the existence of the status quo deviation aversion hypothesis, but not increasing status quo deviation aversion, in people who own their primary residence. The examination was conducted in the 20 Case-Shiller MSAs across the country. The results are systemic and...