CME Group Extends Offerings of S&P/Case-Shiller Housing Contracts. To learn more, click here.

CME has opened up an exciting new opportunity for investors interested in non-traditional investment products to diversify and manage their risk - CME Real Estate products. The first of these products, CME Housing futures and options, launched in May 2006 and are actively trading at CME.

CME Real Estate products provide opportunities for protection in down markets, and extend to the real estate industry the same financial tools that previous CME innovations have brought to agriculture and finance. By providing a means of hedging exposure to real estate prices, they can diffuse the potential impact of sustained declines in real estate prices.

To learn more about CME Housing products, please click here.

To view real-time quotes for CME Housing Products, click here.

Benefits of Trading CME Real Estate futures and options:

• Provide an innovative way to participate in the real estate market without having to buy and sell properties
• Create a new means of risk transfer to a broad range of investors
• Have the potential for fostering stability in the real estate industry
• Global access to CME electronic markets virtually 24 hours a day
• Guarantee of counterparty credit and central clearing by CME Clearing