Last year was bad for commercial real estate. This year could be worse.

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2 thoughts on “Last year was bad for commercial real estate. This year could be worse.

  1. Our government has spent, or at least approved over the last couple years, many multiples of the ‘feared’ $900B in loans to possibly default. If responsibility and common sense was allowed or practiced, this blip in the economy could disappear fairly quickly. But I know it won’t with our politics and me first priorities.

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