By John Simpson, on March 31st, 2009%
So did you notice from the prior blogs in this series that rentable area is fixed while usable varies based on the floor plan of the tenant? This is a key concept because assessments consider gross building area (the area of the outside walls) and net rentable area but I have yet to see an assessor . . . → Read More: The Value Loss of the Parallelogram Shaped Office Building – Part 4 of 7
By John Simpson, on March 30th, 2009%
Newsweek online put out an article called Geithner’s Hedge Fund that is all about the stock market but you could have just as easily written it about commercial real estate. It’s a quick read. Here are a few paragraphs:
To Geanakoplos [Economist John Geanakoplos of Yale University], we’re suffering the harshest leverage cycle since World War II. . . . → Read More: The Deleveraging of Commercial Real Estate
By John Simpson, on March 30th, 2009%
Back in October, I posted about the regional mall temporary tenant. Remember that Regional Mall Decline Scale? Now that the “great recession” has deepened and we’re breaking records for all previous recessions, I’d like to add some more observations to this topic. What can I say… I’m a mall window watcher!
The Subtle Signs of the Times
Most . . . → Read More: Subtle Signs That Regional Malls are Hurting