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Abstract: This study examines the activity of the Società Generale Immobiliare (The General Real Estate Society) in the years that spanned the transition from fascist to republican government in Italy. This period was marked by the acquisition of a controlling share of the Society by the Administration of the Property of the Holy See at a time when both organisations were under the chairmanship of Bernardino Nogara. He was chosen by Pius XI to handle the negotiations with Mussolini which were aimed at finalising the financial agreement attached to the Lateran Treaty, and to organise the economic resources that the State was to transfer to the Holy See. Bernardino Nogara was the only person who could have performed this role in view of the many appointments that he had received from the Church and from the Italian government which made him a trusted figure for both parties.