Property derivatives: Market at last begins to fulfil its promise
“As investors have no background in residential it can be difficult to make the move into derivatives.”
Nevertheless, there is anecdotal evidence of appetite for residential real estate. “Most life funds have an interest in residential real estate for strategic reasons – it is great for diversification and it tends to match insurers’ liabilities – but it is difficult to get any physical scale and it is expensive to manage,” says Paul McNamara, head of property research at Prudential Property Investment Managers.
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