Synthetic Real Estate Investment for the Small Investor (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781450547925)

William Mathers is a real estate developer and professional structural engineer. Over the past several years, he has been involved in numerous projects of different size and type. His interest in synthetic real estate came about as a direct result of the collapse of the housing market and financial system. As a development partner who had worked for years getting a few large projects pushed through approval, he witnessed the collapse firsthand. Many of the projects he was a partner in would now fail. He had worked for years with almost nothing to show for it. With a background conducting forensic investigations, he set about to find out how such devastation could be avoided in the future. Figuring his research would only require a few days, he set about to solve how to control risk in his future real estate projects. One and a half years later, after several dead ends he came across synthetic real estate positions. The markets and mechanisms were already in place. It was a perfect new way to invest and hedge real estate.