The Use of Financial Leverage When Investing in Real Estate

question 32

Multiple Choice

The use of financial leverage when investing in real estate is a double-edged sword. While increased leverage may allow the investor to "purchase" higher expected returns, the "price" of doing so is an increase in which of the following risks?

• A) Liquidity risk
• B) Default risk
• C) Interest rate risk
• D) Pipeline risk

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Definitions:

Dumping

The practice of exporting goods at a price lower than the home-market price, often with the intent of undermining competition in the importing country.

Price Discrimination

The selling of a product to different buyers at different prices when the price differences are not justified by differences in cost.

Smoot-Hawley Act

A United States legislative act passed in 1930, which raised tariffs on thousands of imported goods, contributing to the severity of the Great Depression.

Import Restrictions

Government-imposed limits or duties on the quantity or value of goods that can be imported into a country.