5 Top Housing Stocks to Buy Now

There are a few different ways to invest in housing without actually buying properties. You can invest in real estate investment trusts, or REITs, that focus on residential real estate. You can buy shares in a homebuilder. Or, you could invest in a business that's related to housing, such as a real estate website or a retailer that sells construction supplies to homebuilders.

However, there are a lot of housing stocks to choose from. Even if we narrow down the search to stocks that trade on major exchanges with market capitalizations greater than $250 million, there are 18 residential REITs, 20 homebuilders, and dozens of companies that are more indirect investments in housing.

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