Pimlico Pied-à-terre

[DimPrawn]

For the sake of clarity, you mean you don't have a house right? You're not shorting someone else's.

You short a house by borrowing it behind their back, selling it without telling them, waiting for it to fall in price and then secretly buy it back at at a lower price and pocket the difference.

How hard can that be?

[scooterscot]

You short a house by borrowing it behind their back, selling it without telling them, waiting for it to fall in price and then secretly buy it back at at a lower price and pocket the difference.

This is remarkably close to the truth of the situation.