CRE Mess Not Letting Up: CMBS Delinquency Rates Jump in September as Office, Retail, and Lodging Deteriorate Further by Wolf Richter • Sep 30, 2024 • 57 Comments Rate cuts cannot fix the structural issues crushing office & retail CRE. But industrial, fueled by ecommerce, is in good condition.
Without Share Buybacks, Subprime-Focused Retailer-Lender Conn’s Wouldn’t Have Had to File for Bankruptcy by Wolf Richter • Jul 29, 2024 • 70 Comments A basket case for years. Acquiring W.S. Badcock was another great idea; 7 months later, both are bankrupt and liquidating.
Simon Property Group Jettisons another Mall, to Manage its Way through the Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown by Shrinking and Walking away from Debts by Wolf Richter • Jul 15, 2024 • 86 Comments The largest mall landlord has shed 38% of its shopping centers since 2012. It saw what was coming. So here’s one more.
It Gets Still Messier with CRE Loans, Bottom Not in Sight: CMBS Delinquencies for Office, Retail, Lodging Lead the Parade by Wolf Richter • Jul 2, 2024 • 86 Comments So let’s extend and pretend, please? But industrial still in pristine condition, multifamily limping along.
Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown Fells Express. Simon Property & Brookfield, to Avert Vacant Stores and Bad Leases at their Malls, to Buy the Brands and 435 Stores out of Bankruptcy by Wolf Richter • Apr 22, 2024 • 99 Comments This Has Been Years in the Making.
Brick-and-Mortar Meltdown Fells another Retailer: Joann Inc. Files for Bankruptcy 3 Years after IPO by Wolf Richter • Mar 18, 2024 • 96 Comments The IPO allowed the PE firm that had acquired Joann via an LBO in 2010 to dump the shares into the lap of the public.
US Movie Ticket Sales -46% in 2023 from 21 Years Ago: AMC and the Movie Theater Meltdown by Wolf Richter • Jan 22, 2024 • 135 Comments Americans have changed how they watch movies. They watch more than ever, but at home.
PE Firms & Distressed Debt Funds to Get Mall Landlord PREIT in Prepackaged Bankruptcy Filing #2 by Wolf Richter • Dec 11, 2023 • 53 Comments Now they get to deal with the brick-and-mortar meltdown.
Defaulted Crossgates Mall CMBS Loans Sold at 69% Below 2012 Appraised Value of the Mall by Wolf Richter • Aug 18, 2023 • 112 Comments CRE debt keeps on giving. Retail CMBS have been a bloodbath for years. Thankfully, banks largely not on the hook.
Westfield Walks from Mall in San Francisco, after Walking from 2 Malls in Florida & others. Screws CMBS Holders, Said in 2021 it’ll Dump All Malls, but Suddenly Blames San Francisco? by Wolf Richter • Jun 13, 2023 • 159 Comments Default rate of mall CMBS rose to 7%. Simon Property Group, largest mall landlord, walked from malls for years. Tens of thousands of stores closed. Ecommerce is killing them one by one, not San Francisco.
