Commercial Real Estate Collapse – Midtown Manhattan

Posted by admin on May 21st, 2010 and filed under real estates | 20 Comments »

From the October 6, 2009 PBS “News Hour.”

One sees this every day. Storefronts on Park Avenue South where overpriced restaurants sat two years ago are empty with “For Rent” signs, something one never saw in such neighborhoods. Traditionally in NYC, property changes hands in private deals, never through the posting of rent signs. With 1% down payments, commercial real estate makes the subprime meltdown look outright responsible.

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20 Responses

  1. theroilsoil Says:

    We haven’t seen …
    We haven’t seen anthing yet . . . it get’s far, far worse.

    So much greed, so much excess, so much hubris . . . now it all hits the trashcan.

    This is a DEPRESSION . . . and there is no recovery in realestate.

  2. bruce3635 Says:

    I clean floors for …
    I clean floors for a living and serve french fries in an Indian casino. I’M not smart. In 2007 I was aware that the economy was collapsing. and these people didn’t know, to the tune of 7 billion? How can this be?

  3. jmjfanss Says:

    @hurchel

    But …
    @hurchel

    But ron paul needs to announce to save the united states of america.

  4. hurchel Says:

    I would have last …
    I would have last time if he hadn’t quit..

  5. jmjfanss Says:

    @hurchel

    and …
    @hurchel

    and nobama is just as bad too, the two party system are two wings of the same bird

    Vote Ron Paul in 2012.

  6. PTTurboe Says:

    WAKE UP

    Saddam …
    WAKE UP

    Saddam Hussein
    Barack Hussein Obama
    Osama Bin Laden
    Joe Biden

    Its a Game. A Spiritual Game…

    Either win and go to the 4th dimension where it is Service to Others (STO) or…

    Lose and stay in the 3rd Dimension of Service to Self (STS)…

    You need to Cross The River….

  7. LordoftheKaty Says:

    So what would you …
    So what would you say is next in line for us?

  8. singledad1234 Says:

    @LordoftheKaty


    @LordoftheKaty

    I said this was going to happen
    IN 2007
    and Gerald is a friend of mine

  9. singledad1234 Says:

    I KNEW THIS WOULD …
    I KNEW THIS WOULD HAPPEN
    and I said it would happen
    and its GOING TO GET ALOT WORSE
    and I am happy about it
    YOU RICH that never cared about anyone BUT YOURSELVES
    and now YOUR BABLYON IS FALLING
    ITS GREAT JESUS IS THE LORD

  10. jenniferashley99 Says:

    I thought this last …
    I thought this last year when thousands of us got laid-off from my company. No jobs equals no revenue.

  11. Limeisback2012 Says:

    Either wall street …
    Either wall street dosent understand that without jobs people can’t buy things and is purly focused on the short term benefits of laying people off. Or they know that there crashing the system and they have some grand plan of mass economic destuction we are just not privy to. Come on people, you can’t keeping buying that the people who own and run america are idiots that don’t know what there doing. There causing unimployment and system crash on purpose. There evil and it’s obvious.

  12. hurchel Says:

    Bush defrauded …
    Bush defrauded america, and until he is prosecuted his whole group, the US is suiciding itself. we can’t stand what our government is doing

  13. Seano71 Says:

    Tough? lol

    WE can …
    Tough? lol

    WE can buy cheap for once

  14. LordoftheKaty Says:

    So Gerald Celente …
    So Gerald Celente was right! There was a commercial realestate collapse in 2009!

  15. soundzero Says:

    Greed from top to …
    Greed from top to bottom.

  16. hilololomoa Says:

    Terrorists, …
    Terrorists,bush.chinese with 2.3 trillion dollars in Treasury securities

  17. mdunn604 Says:

    The shareholders of …
    The shareholders of the federal reserve and the ECB

  18. jove04 Says:

    Who brought America …
    Who brought America down to its knees? Iraq and Afghanistan? Terrorists? Bush? Who is the main culprit?

  19. MarcusCMarcellus Says:

    For some mysterious …
    For some mysterious reason, the PBS News Hour (McNeil-Lehrer News Hour when I was growing up) has a very good economics reporter , one of the better ones on TV. Go figure.

  20. LisaJ4Liberty Says:

    Excellent piece by …
    Excellent piece by the News Hour. Thanks for posting this Marcus.

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