“For an office building, you can’t get a loan today…there’s no liquidity in the marketplace,” Gottlieb told Fortune. And with interest rates being higher, it’s eating away at a lot of the cash flow, Gottlieb said, calling it a “very trying time.”

In his view, the difference with this office real estate downturn as compared to previous downturns is that office owners are wondering if demand will ever return.

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    1 year ago

    Crazy idea, but there’s a huge demand for housing in a lot of these cities so why not convert some of this office space into housing? These people can’t even capitalism right smh

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      1 year ago

      You have to run all new plumbing, all new electrical hookups, all new hvac, all new internet solutions, all new gas lines if required, and probably a bunch of others Im forgetting right now. At that point, might as well knock down and build fresh.