Posted To: Pipeline Press
Welcome to the only day where the date is a command. Owners of shopping malls wish they could command everyone to go shopping in one. When was the last time you went into a shopping mall? I don’t remember either, and I’m starting to miss those rock-solid pretzels and henna tattoo & ear-piercing booths. Turn them into housing, affordable or otherwise ? Why not?! The aggregate value of reappraised American malls fell an average of 60 percent in 2020 , with 118 retail properties seeing $4 billion in value wiped out over the course of their reappraisals. Of the 1,100 indoor malls in the United States, analysts say only about half have a reasonable chance of survival. Certainly, the hundreds of thousands of loan officers hope their jobs do more than survive in 2021, and to listen…(read more)
