Multiple choice

Despite its attractive returns, investing in real estate can still pose risks, ranging from the potential for outright fraud in some cases to the lack of a regulatory framework to protect investors and a complete lack of transparency in others.

  1. to the shortage of regulations to protect investors and a serious lack of information about investments in others

  2. to the shortage of regulations to protect investors and in others a serious lack of information about investments

  3. and the shortage of regulations to protect investors and a serious lack of information about investments in others

  4. and the shortage of regulations to protect investors to a serious lack of information about investments in others

  5. to the shortage of regulations to protect investors in others and a serious lack of information about investments

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A Correct answer
Explanation

The correct usage is ‘ranging from .... to’, which eliminates options (3) and (4). Parallelism of the construct ‘in some cases .... in others’ makes option (1) the best choice. Hence (1).