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The World’s Empty Office Buildings Have Become a Debt Time Bomb (archive.is)
posted 2 years ago by BidenIsAGroomer 2 years ago by BidenIsAGroomer +38 / -0
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– Lurker404 10 points 2 years ago +10 / -0

Let's hope they convert them to residential housing to keep all the migrants and leftists from spilling out into the countryside.

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– subbookkeeper 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

Dan from Lotus Eaters raised this point as not as easy at it sounds.

Turning a commercial building into residential apartments is basically impossible as it requires a total internal fit out. It will probably be cheaper to demolish and rebuild if you wanted too.

Edit: Someone did a basic calculation of the numbers and it's not great: https://cre.moodysanalytics.com/insights/cre-trends/office-to-apartment-conversions/

Maybe if the price of commercial real estate crashed, but if that happened the overall economy would most likely be affected so who knows what the costs would be. Spoiler, they reckon about 3% of NY's commercial office space would be good candidates for conversion.

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– bamboozler1 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

It doesn't seem to be all that difficult, at least with older (pre-1960s) office buildings...

Australia is littered with buildings like that which have been converted, and, off the top of my head, I can think of a number of former medical office -> apartment conversions I have seen...

Sure, the scale is larger, but it's clearly not all that difficult...

Or, as others point out, "hostel" style conversions with shared facilities... There's a heap of those around, too.

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– subbookkeeper 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

How many older, pre 1960 office buildings are there in the middle of cities though?

https://www.commercialrealestate.com.au/advice/converting-commercial-buildings-into-residential-819336/

Note the example they use is reality TV show. And most converted commercial spaces are ugly as fuck as they have to use what they have and call it "urban" or "avant garde" which is just code for shit.

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