News and Press Releases:

• "Swap Specialist Tries Novel Strategy", Hedge Fund Alert, Harrison Scott Publications Inc. April 14th, 2010 (page6).

• "A New Concept Aims to Help Resolve Problem Loans", by Bonnie Sinnock, National
  Mortgage News, March 10th, 2010. 

• "The SwapRentSM Transactions for Homeowners, HELM and FARM - A New Alternative Housing Finance System", Housing Finance International (HFI), the Quarterly Journal of International Union for Housing Finance (IUHF), Brussels, December 2009. http://www.housingfinance.org)  Editor's Introduction 

• "SwapRent Aims to Help Resolve Today's Problem Loans and More", by Bonnie Sinnock, American Banker, SourceMedia, Inc., March 9th, 2010.

• "Private sector home affordability strategies progress",  Structured Credit Investors, Issue 155, October 7th, 2009.

• "A new beginning - Islamic home finance", IBF 1009/Issue 46, CPI Financial, September 2009.    Web Version

• "Game-Changers: New Financial Products and Platforms in Uncharted Territories", by John Jay, Senior Analyst, Aite Group, April 6th, 2009 (page 4 -7).

• "Entrepreneur Liu Sees A Derivative Solution for Homeowners", Dow Jones Newswires, September 4th, 2007
  

• "Product Proposed to Hedge Against Home Prices", Inside Mortgage Finance's Inside B&C Lending, August 24th, 2007
  
  
• "SwapRent (SM) Plan Matches Struggling Borrowers with Investors", MortgageDaily.com, July 10th, 2007
  
  
• "Entrepreneur Sees A Futures Market for Homeowners", Los Angeles Times, April 20th, 2003

• "Universal Hedging", Risk Magazine, Feature by Nick Sawyer, March 6th, 2003.    Web Version

• "How to Profit from the Coming Real Estate Bust - Money-Making Strategies for the End of Housing Bubble", John Rubino, Published by Rodale 2003 (page 226 - 227).

• "Preserving Your Home's Value", Business 2.0, February 2003

• "Building A Hedge for Housing", Risk Magazine, Feature, December 1st, 2002.   Web Version
  

• "First Online Exchange for Real Estate Futures", FOW Week, September 2002

Public Blog Sites on SwapRent^SM

• "Ralph Liu's Clever Idea: SwapRent", Business Week Hot Property Blog, Posted by Peter Coy on October 11th, 2007
  
  
• "SwapRent: Is This A Viable Program for Homeowners and Investment Institutions?", Allbusiness.com Real Estate Blog, Posted by Tyler McKenzie on October 10th, 2007
  
  
• The SwapRent (SM) Blog - The Official Blog Site of the New "Economic Renting" Concept through SwapRent (SM) Transactions, March 29th, 2008
  
  
• "Own-to-Rent with a Twist", Economics of Contempt, May 30th, 2008

• "Real Estate Derivative Markets: Why We Need Them", Economics of Contempt, June 3rd, 2008

• "Introduction to SwapRent: If debt-to-equity swaps work for banks, why not for houses too?" by Felix Salmon at Market Movers, Portfolio.com, October 3rd, 2008.

• "Beyond Uncle Sam's Big Bailout", Capital Commerce by James Pethokoukis, US News and World Report, October 6th, 2008.

• "Ralph Y. Liu: 12-27-08 SwapRent and Economic Stimulus Plan", Financial Economics Today - Wayne Marr, Professor of Business Administration, School of Management, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, December 27th, 2008.

• "Could SwapRent stop the foreclosure crisis?", BankThink, Published by American Banker, Posted by Emily Flitter on April 14th, 2009.

• "SwapRent: Ralph Liu's Mortgage Innovation", But Then What Blog by Tom Lindmark, July 20th, 2009.

• "SwapRent: An Alternative for Saving Underwater Homeowners", But Then What Blog by Tom Lindmark, August 10th, 2009.

• "FARMing Out The Housing Crisis", Guest Post at Nakedcapitalism by Leo Kolivakis, Pusblisher of Pension Pulse, August 14th, 2009

• "FARMing Out The Housing Crisis?", Leo Kolivakis, Pension Pulse, August 14th, 2009
  
  

Academic Papers That Referenced SwapRent^SM

• "Consumer and Mortgage Credit at a Crossroads: Preserving Expanded Access While Informing Choices and Protecting Consumers", Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Eric S. Belsky and Ren S. Essene, Last Revised on February 26, 2008, UCC08-1
  
  
• "Identifying, Managing and Mitigating Risks to Borrowers in Changing Mortgage and Consumer Credit Markets", Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Eric S. Belsky, Karl E. Case and Susan J. Smith, February, 2008, UCC08-14
  
  
• "Homeownership 2.0", Northwestern University Law Review, Lee Anne Fennell, Professor of Law, the Law School, University of Chicago, 2008 (page 1048).
• "Housing Risk", Susan J. Smith, Professor of Geography and a Director of the Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University, Durham, England, the United Kingdom ( susanj.smith@durham.ac.uk ). This paper appears in Amin, A., O’Neill, M., Daya and Brown (eds)
  (2009) Thinking about almost everything (Profile Books) (page 2).
• "Note to Kyle - Revised Toward a Model Forecasting House Price Turning Points", by Maury Seldin, Advanced Studies Institute, Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics, Homer Hoyt Institute, April 2008 (page 1).   Homer Hoyt Institute Web Link.
• "Rethinking the Risks of Home Ownership", Susan J. Smith, Beverley A. Searle and Nicole Cook, Department of Geography, Durham University. Jnl. Soc. Pol., 38, 1, 83-102, Cambridge University Press, 2008. (page 98).
• "Milken Institute Events - Financial Innovations Labs", Chaired by Glenn Yago, October, 2008 (page 1).   Milken Institute Web Link.
• "Leveraging Bailout Funds with an Old Idea - Shared Appreciation Units", Norm Miller and Michael Sklarz, University of San Diego, Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, November, 2008 (page 1).
• "Borrowing to Live - Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited", Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky, Editors, Joint Center of Housing Study, Harvard University, 2008 (page 55).
• "Subprime Mortgage and Securitization: A Brilliant Idea for Widening Access - What Went Wrong and What Can Be Rescued?", A Presentation by Professor Charles Goodhart, Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics, January 2009. (page 10).
• "Game-Changers: New Financial Products and Platforms for Uncharted Territories", by John Jay, Senior Analyst, Aite Group, April 6th, 2009 (Subscription, page 4 - 7).
• "Innovative financing for homeownership: the potential for shared equity initiatives in Australia", by Simon Pinnegar, Hazel Easthope, Bill Randolph, Peter Williams and Judith Yates for the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, AHURI Final Report No. 137,
  August, 2009 (page 72, 98).   The Australian Policy Online web site.
• "Private sector home affordability strategies progress", Structured Credit Investor, Issue 155, October 7th, 2009.
• "A new beginning", Islamic Home Finance, Islamic Business and Finance, Oct 09, Issue 46, CPI Financial, November 2nd, 2009     CPI Financial web link
• "The Unbounded Home - Property Values Beyond Property Lines", by Lee Anne Fennell, Yale University Press, 2009 (page 268)
• "Managing Financial Risks: From Global to Local", Edited by Gordon L. Clark, Adam D. Dixon, Ashby H. B. Monk, Oxford University Press, 2009 (page 256)
• "Modelling Price Movements in Housing Micro-Markets: Permanent and Transitory Components in Local Housing Market Dynamics", RICS Research Report; Michael White and Neil Dunse, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland; Patrick Wilson, University of Technology Sydney, Australia; Ralf Zurbruegg, University of Adelaide, Australia, July 2009 (page 7)