Trading: how to cash in on America's hot housing market

Homebuilder Pultegroup is perfectly placed to cash in on the US housing boom. Matthew Partridge explains how to play it.

An American house
Following the pandemic, Americans are leaving urban areas for spacious suburbs
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In early February, I argued that you should go long on US homebuilder DR Horton owing to the strong American housing boom. Six months on, the boom shows no signs of letting up, with both house prices and sales still climbing.

The latest Case-Shiller house price index suggests that the average house price in the US has risen by 16% in a year. While some argue that the market is overheating, and that a slowdown or even a 2009-style slump is just around the corner, I think it’s time to double down on homebuilding stocks.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
Shares editor, MoneyWeek

Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He has previously written for a wide range of publications, including the Guardian and the Economist, and also helped to run a newsletter on terrorism. He has spent time at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and the consultancy Lombard Street Research.

Matthew is the author of Superinvestors: Lessons from the greatest investors in history, published by Harriman House, which has been translated into several languages. His second book, Investing Explained: The Accessible Guide to Building an Investment Portfolio, is published by Kogan Page.

As senior writer, he writes the shares and politics & economics pages, as well as weekly Blowing It and Great Frauds in History columns He also writes a fortnightly reviews page and trading tips, as well as regular cover stories and multi-page investment focus features.

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