Real-estate stocks have skyrocketed in the last year. Here are other ways to participate in the new property boom.
The housing crisis that wiped out trillions of dollars of personal wealth and shook investor confidence is finally over.
Home prices jumped 10.2% in February compared with a year earlier, the biggest rise in nearly seven years, according to real-estate analytics firm CoreLogic. It was also the 12th straight month of increasing home prices, prompting many analysts to begin lifting their forecasts for 2013 to the high single digits. That has got the attention of investors who want in on the action.