Real estate limited partnerships have become an increasingly popular form of investment over the past decade. Many investors have been drawn to these investment vehicles because of the high claimed rates of return earned by investors in previous partnerships. However, there has been little...

In this paper, we consider spin-offs as a vehicle to separate real estate operations from other real estate and/or non-real estate operations. For a sample of 33 such spin-offs announced and completed between 1962 and 1982, we document significantly positive abnormal returns around spin-off...

This article describes the operations of the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), examines the procedures it employs to resolve distressed Savings and Loan scenarios and investigates the pricing of transactions undertaken by the RTC. The RTC has been criticized for allegedly transferring...