The Wealth Effects of Real Estate Spin-Offs

Abstract

This study examines the wealth effects surrounding the separation of real estate operations via spin-off. Parent firms of spin-offs in this sample experienced a significant abnormal two-day return of 3.195% for days - 1 and 0 of the announcement data in the Wall Street Journal. Tracking the performance of the spun off firms and the parent firms that survived for twenty-four months after the spin-off showed that neither the portfolio of subsidiaries nor the portfolio of parent firms earned returns significantly different from the market portfolio.