News: Trump Is Getting CRUSHED By Commercial Real Estate Bust
Rebel Capitalist News
George Gammon
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🗓️ 7 May 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello fellow rebel capitals hope you're well so we've got some big news as far as commercial real estate and the Donald he is |
| 0:08.8 | Struggling to say the least at least or he's struggling when it comes to his real estate in New York City let's put it that way let's get right over to this article from the Wall Street Journal and I'm not doing this just a dunk on Trump I'm doing this to show you, go through the numbers as to what he's |
| 0:25.6 | dealing with, with one of his main properties, ironically enough, about a block |
| 0:29.7 | away from the stock market, and just to show you a real life example of what is happening |
| 0:37.8 | right now in the real world with real estate we sit there and we look at all these banks that are failing or |
| 0:44.4 | struggling and we hear in the news that there's this problem with commercial real |
| 0:48.5 | estate like oh yeah yeah yeah whatever whatever that's old news. But when you actually look at the numbers in a real life example, |
| 0:58.1 | I think it sinks into a greater degree as to how big of a problem this actually is and how long it's going to last. |
| 1:07.0 | Right now we are not in inning nine of the commercial real estate bust. |
| 1:10.8 | We're in inning two or three. Let's get right over to this Wall Street Journal article and I'll show you exactly what I am referring to. |
| 1:18.0 | So the office market meltdown comes for Trump's prized Wall Street building. |
| 1:25.2 | Now, to be fair to Trump, |
| 1:28.1 | a lot of this is just a hit piece, |
| 1:30.2 | just to attack his character |
| 1:32.2 | and say that these people are moving out because they don't like Trump's policies a blah blah blah blah blah. |
| 1:38.5 | We don't care about any of that nonsense. What I want to go over are the actual facts, the data, and the numbers. So let's start by looking at the vacancy rate for this building. And to be be clear it's 40 |
| 1:53.2 | 40 wall. |
| 1:55.0 | See that's 40 Wall Street, but they're calling it 40 |
| 1:58.0 | yes, 40 Wall Street is the building. |
| 2:00.6 | So the towers vacancy rate has risen to 21% compared with about 5% in 2015. |
| 2:09.2 | So you might think to yourself, well, I mean, is that a big deal? He's still at 80% occupancy. I mean, so what? But |
| 2:19.1 | when you actually look at how much he's paying in debt and what has happened to the interest rate and then you |
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