Most United States MSAs saw their house prices plummet during the recent recession. While many areas are beginning to away from their lowest house prices in recent history, other MSAs are well on their way to house price recovery. One attribute which separates these early winners is their rental...

Most United States MSAs saw their house prices plummet during the recent Great Recession. While many are only beginning to pull away from their lowest house prices in recent history, other MSAs are already well on their way to house price recovery. We believe that one attribute which separates...

Constructing a novel database on the real estate holdings of public firms, we show that distressed firms sell their real estate assets at a discount relative to healthy firms. We find that distress discount in real estate assets is less pronounced for sellers with less liquidity-constrained...

Real estate—housing in particular—is a less profitable investment in the long run than previously thought. We hand-collect property-level financial data for the institutional real estate portfolios of four large Oxbridge colleges over the period 1901–1983. Gross income yields initially...