REITs, Underlying Property Markets and Liquidity: A Firm Level Analysis

David Downs and Bing Zhu

ERES from European Real Estate Society (ERES)

Abstract: This paper examines the impact of underlying property market liquidity on the liquidity of publicly traded REIT shares. Our analysis measures firm-level exposure to local, direct real estate market liquidity using the property allocation of each REIT. The findings show that property market liquidity can causally influence the liquidity of real estate securities. This is especially true during the crisis period, which confirms with the notion that illiquidity is transmitted from direct to indirect property markets. The results also reveal that the liquidity of a firm’s assets can affect the liquidity of financial claims on the assets. The corporate investment decision, including the selection of a geographic market, can affect stock liquidity. Furthermore, we find that the sensitivity to underlying asset liquidity changes with the firm’s credit constraint and investment opportunities. Small REITs, REITs with a lower cash interest coverage ratio, and REITs with a higher book-to-market ratio might choose to invest in more liquid property markets to improve their stock liquidity. Finally, we find that underlying asset liquidity is associated with REIT values.

Keywords: Geographic asset location; Liquidity; real estate returns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-01-01
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