The entire fintwit cognoscenti is abuzz with the outcome of a very interesting experiment in the markets. A private real estate fund recently converted into a public fund and started trading on the NYSE this week. Bluerock Private Real Estate Fund, with assets of US$4.3B, promptly experienced a 40% drop from its last published NAV (from when it was a private fund). From a "private" NAV of $24.36, it's around $15 today. More than 10 million units have traded. One reasonable explanation for such a precipitous fall is that there were a lot of motivated sellers who had been waiting for liquidity. Nevertheless, the judgement of thousands of knowledgeable investors declining to buy at anything close to the "private" NAV is worth taking note of. Here's a related tweet by Boaz Weinstein, who is in the business of buying publicly traded funds at a discount.
