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If landlords can’t pay back loans on office buildings, the lenders will suffer. Some banks are trying to avoid that fate.

Hard times are likely ahead for a lot of people. Mind your expenses and plan to save where possible just in case. Apologies for having a doomer outlook; I'm very cynical about capitalism, especially in the USA.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 16 points 2 days ago
[-] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

What do you mean you've seen this? It's brand new.

[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Nah, it’s a repost from late 2007.

Sorry, I mean a repeat of late 2007, the fourth or fifth “once in a lifetime economic crisis” for millennials that will somehow magically end with billionaires owning an even larger percentage of the GDP.

“How could this possibly happen, again, again, again, again,” will cry the ~~economists~~ billionaire simps.

[-] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

What's a repost?

Are you back from the future or something?

[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

They're just pointing out that history is repeating itself because we learned nothing from 2008

[-] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My bad, I should have put a "/s" on all my comments in this thread.

Those lines are directly out of a movie. Except they say rerun instead of repost. It just seemed that the OP was driving one of these:

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[-] Glytch@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

I'll take the woosh. We'll played.

[-] tektite@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 day ago

If it makes you feel any better, I liked your joke and even read it in raccoon hat kid's voice.

[-] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You know what, that does make me feel better.

But I guess those jokes stunk like manure! I hate manure!

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 3 points 1 day ago

Isn't this just going to be "great recession 2 office building bugaloo?"

Part 1 was the great recession caused by sub prime loaning assholes and combined debt packages.

Similar story different players apparently...

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[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Now wheeeeere have I seen this before.....? Hmmmmmmm...

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

What's that? Rich fuckers are worried about being less rich? However will I be able to sleep at night.

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

They will never be less rich.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You will sleep after paying taxes for their bailouts.

[-] Zess@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Same reason why banks kept giving loans to Trump. He had so much debt that their best option for a long time was to just give him more money in the hopes he could use it to earn enough to repay all the loans. Sunk-cost fallacy at the major financial level.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 9 points 1 day ago

"if you owe the bank $100 that's your problem, if you owe the bank $932,514,634 that's their problem."

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

The churn will continue....you become a high paid employee at 50, the new kids get paid 10% below you because you're "senior". Then you all get 3% increases. You get retired. They keep getting 3% increases while you don't. Suddenly they get paid more than you. You start having trouble paying for stuff because it's so expensive. Then suddenly you gotta sell your house to have enough. A newly graduated kid gets paid the same as you, they buy your house. You can't buy a house anymore, so you move to a cheaper area where you can afford something. Then you moved again and again. Take on stamp collecting as a cheap affordable hobby. Blah blah. You end up in a retirement home. Then your kids can't afford that. Next thing you know you're under a bridge and you love the freedom for like 3 days. Then you really wanna shower but you can't. The welfare office is far from the YMCA, so you find a Walmart cart. A guy shows you where to collect soda cans and where to sell them. You two become friends but he OD's.. you inherit his cart. Then you help a new guy to find cans with you. So then you OD. And the guy in your house is retiring....the cycle continues.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

Where can I find the used cans?

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Hey friend 🤗! Come on man, we'll find you some cans! Place number 1 where people don't look is under cars! Just sit here, watch the cars leaving the street parking and jump in to profit! But do it quick or a Karen might just give your cart to Bob...Sorry Karen! Yeah, not all Karen's are bad! Specially not you!

[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

The American dream

[-] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Oddly specific.

[-] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

.. and in Australia (at least) you pay a massive Stamp Duty each time you buy a new place.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Economists: don't worry we will get you those bailouts. Free money for banks! Make it rain!

[-] sunzu@kbin.run 16 points 2 days ago

If you are reading this... it is clearly not "quietly" lol

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago
[-] Metz@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

Mind your expenses and plan to save where possible just in case

So.. like always? Nothing changed. We are already fucked.

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Please save, and put your money in the bank.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

You say that like somebody who's never had to choose between rent and food before.

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I'm saying that the banks, who appear to be struggling, would like you to save your money by putting it in their system. So they may use it.

I'm not making any other judgement.

That said, no clue where the person I replied to got their apparent quote from, as it does not appear in the article itself.

[-] Bye@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago

lol how tight would it be if I could buy my own mortgages off of the bank for a discount

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Depends on how likely your bank thinks you are to default on your mortgage...

Tell your bank, you've lost your job, going to prison, and you're newly divorced with large alimony payments. /s obviously.

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[-] Steve@startrek.website 22 points 3 days ago

You joke but when you default on a loan they will eventually offer to settle at a lower amount

At the expense of your credit score tanking and never being able to recover.

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Your credit will eventually recover, and you already have a house!

[-] Steve@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

Oh no you get a lower score in a stupid game

[-] aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Commercial real estate, likely a restructuring due to folks not returning to the office. Been a downward trend since before Covid. Initial downturn was corps leaving downtowns, minor spike in 2022 and trending south.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago

The big question is : Whereto are they dumping toxic loans? I would not put it pst some assholes to sell such "products" off to unassuming private shareholders as a "wonderful investement in business property" for their retirement...

[-] r0ertel@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I was wondering this same thing. Who would take on a loan that a bank deems unprofitable? Is this like turning the loan over to a loan shark and the shark has means to ensure payment that banks don't due to regulations? Are they selling to the govn't? Either option is not good.

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[-] maxinstuff@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Can they dump mine please?

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Nope. Bankruptcy only exists for people who will never need it.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 47 points 3 days ago

What's hilarious is some of the crisis- at least in the commercial real estate space- was created by the banks.

when you take out a loan for commercial real estate- like office buildings and such like- it's somewhat abnormal for the building to be monolithic in tenancy- most spaces are a leased out like apartments. The glaring exceptions to this are mega-corporate HQ's like Amazon's or Google's or Apple's.

The value of the property is then usually described by minimum lease per square foot. The owners/property management are then locked into keeping rates above that minimum by the lender as terms on the loans. When there was a comercial real estate boom in the late teens to early 2020's... the value of commercial real estate skyrocketed... and so did this minimum.

when covid hit, the values plummeted and continue to fall. Demand has changed and fallen with remote work... and the rates are too high because all the corporate places dumped their offices and now the people wanting offices are more the start ups or professional types that don't need massive amounts of space, and don't want to or can't spend 30-50/sqrft/month.

the landlords are going to go tits up because everybody always assumed property value would go up.

*Part of the change in how we use office spaces is now being more "social"- with office buildings adding in features you might expect to see in apartments; things like gyms, seating/booths/meeting spaces in lobbies, tenant lounges; rooftop patios, which also chews into the amount of revenue because that all takes up space.

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Largest print outlet in the US: "look at these guys being quiet"

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