RE: Zillow, if your market making business has holding times measured in months, you better be sure you're hedging out housing market delta! if your backtests assume high turnover and you can't move inventory, then guess what? The alpha you thought you had just left the building
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And this is before we even get into the issues of toxic flow, where Zillow also clearly got rinsed by more informed counterparties who took them to the woodshed on pricing because it turns out that nonfungible illiquid assets are hard to price algorithmically
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Yep. They’ve found a way to be even more illiquid than
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do you think the housing market could be represented by an NFT? and could it be traded rapidly?
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Probably not? I confess I haven't thought deeply about the question but I mean people actually want the legal rights and square footage associated with real property ownership, not just a signifier of ownership. They want the real McCoy imo
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