Chen, Hsuan-Chi; Lu, Chiuling - In: The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 33 (2006) 2, pp. 105-125
Previous studies have documented the reversal in the initial returns of REIT IPOs from overpricing in the 1980s to … underpricing in the 1990s. We find that the gross spreads of REIT IPOs decreased significantly in the 1990s. In particular, there … 64% in the 1990s. Higher gross spreads, overpricing, and high frequency of integer offer prices for REIT IPOs in the 1980 …