“The Market’s Not There” – One World Trade Center Lowers Asking Rents By 10%
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
05/27/2014
With the housing purchase market for everyone but the wealthiest stagnating (confirmed by today’s sliding “plans to buy a home” indicator), forcing Americans to scramble for rental properties and pushing residential asking rents to fresh record high quarter after quarter, the same can not be said for the commercial sector. In fact quite the opposite: according to the WSJ the owners of the towering 3.1 million square foot One World Trade Center, which at last check was 55% leased, have been forced to cut asking rents by 10% from 75% to $69. Why? “The market’s not there,” said Mr. Durst, whose Durst Organization bought a stake in the tower from the Port Authority in mid-2011. “When we started in 2011, everybody expected the economy to take off, and obviously that hasn’t happened.”
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