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It's not comparable because you can't rent an apartment from someone then sell the ownership of the apartment to someone else because you don't own it. There's
by robjan 6y ago
It's not comparable because you can't rent an apartment from someone then sell the ownership of the apartment to someone else because you don't own it.
There's no way of making it comparable without making some kind of derivative contract against the deed to the property but then it's back to traditional shorting.
- deetsb 6y agoI said this somewhere else, but you should think of the rent as ownership of the utility of the space for a fixed tenor. The only reason you can't easily trade it is most contracts restrict that, but removing that friction, it really isn't too different.