What Are Older Office Towers Worth When They Finally Sell amid Record Vacancy Rates? Not Much. Huge Losses Everywhere by Wolf Richter • Apr 8, 2023 • 160 Comments But foreclosure sales are far worse, including a total wipeout of CMBS investors.
San Francisco Office Market Turns into Nightmare, in Two Easy Steps. Step 1: Hogging Office Space; Step 2: Working from Home by Wolf Richter • Apr 4, 2023 • 125 Comments Step 3: The economy… but that step hasn’t happened yet.
My Company Ended Up with Some Exposure to Silicon Valley Bank: I Warned about Monogamy’s Downside Years Ago by John McNellis • Mar 26, 2023 • 55 Comments In 2011, I published an essay on the need for multiple banking relationships that hits the SVB coffin nail on the head.
Shopping Mall CMBS Remain Distressed by Marc Joffe • Feb 22, 2023 • 51 Comments Many Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities received inflated ratings from rating agencies due to the phenomenon of “ratings shopping.”
What’s Behind the Tech & Social Media Layoffs? by Wolf Richter • Jan 25, 2023 • 114 Comments Drunk with Easy Money, companies were hogging office space and workers for a future that did not come.
Residential Construction Splits: Multifamily Starts in 2022 Jump to Highest since 1980s Boom, Single-Family Starts Drop by Wolf Richter • Jan 19, 2023 • 147 Comments What this means going into the slowdown.
Are Tech Layoffs in San Francisco and Silicon Valley the Latest Hit to Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)? by Wolf Richter • Jan 9, 2023 • 100 Comments BART was already “facing a fiscal cliff” after working from home and driving to work caused revenues to collapse.
I Asked What it Would Take to Get Gen Z Back to the Office: “Private Offices, Man. Microsoft Gives Them to Everybody” by John McNellis • Nov 24, 2022 • 226 Comments What? Old-school offices work better than WeWork playpens? Reinstalling private offices in the growing legions of ghost buildings may be worth a try.
Office REITs Massacred as the Future these Office Markets Were Built for Got Cancelled by Working-from-Home by Wolf Richter • Oct 4, 2022 • 80 Comments “Expect more distress from some owners as loan defaults and relinquishing of assets could increase going forward.”
Construction Spending Ticks up, Non-Residential Hits Record, Residential Stalls after Blistering Boom by Wolf Richter • Oct 3, 2022 • 27 Comments Office construction wobbles along at much lower levels, amid a glut of vacant offices.
