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We study the speculative value of a finitely lived asset when investors disagree and short sales are limited. In this case, investors are willing to pay a speculative value for the resale option they obtain when they acquire the asset. Using martingale arguments, we characterize the equilibrium speculative value as a solution to a fixed point problem for a monotone operator $$\mathbb F$$ F ....