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Downtown Los Angles skyscraper loses 2/3 of value
KTLA ^ | 11/26/2024 | Cameron Kinsla

Posted on 11/26/2024 10:04:36 AM PST by BenLurkin

55-floor Bank of America Plaza, which was appraised at about $605 million a decade ago.

But now? It’s valued at $188.9 million, meaning the tower has lost two-thirds of its value, as reported by Bloomberg.

And the tower is relatively full, with 79% of space leased as of July.

In contrast, downtown Los Angeles, which Bloomberg said is “among the hardest hit areas”

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TOPICS: US: California
KEYWORDS: california; newsomfornia
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1 posted on 11/26/2024 10:04:36 AM PST by BenLurkin
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Used to work in that building. Got up to the top floor....once.


2 posted on 11/26/2024 10:05:10 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

There has been talk, that there will be a crash in commercial real estate. Stay tuned. This building is mostly occupied but has still lost so much market value? Wow..


3 posted on 11/26/2024 10:06:41 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: BenLurkin

Newsom is done.

No phone call for you.

Viva Kaitlin or any other Trump loyalist.


4 posted on 11/26/2024 10:07:28 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: BenLurkin

If he was healthy, Bruce Willis could make another Diehard movie and blow-up Nakatomi Tower, put this building to good use.


5 posted on 11/26/2024 10:08:17 AM PST by srmanuel ( the)
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To: BenLurkin
In contrast, downtown Los Angeles, which Bloomberg said is “among the hardest hit areas”

What hit them? Do they know?

6 posted on 11/26/2024 10:09:10 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: BenLurkin

For those who don’t know...
It’s a huge building, major security, nicely appointed, top tier office space.
A $400million drop in value to $190mil...wow. There’s no way the same building could be constructed at its current valuation.

BTW, its a 69% drop in value, & MSM still has to hedge it [not 66%, about $20 mil difference].


7 posted on 11/26/2024 10:10:27 AM PST by TonyinLA (I have insufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Once it became more difficult to launder money through real estate, the perceived value of these properties had to drop.


8 posted on 11/26/2024 10:13:53 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Steely Tom

“Covid” according to Bloomberg. I suspect we’ll be hearing that nonsense for a long time.


9 posted on 11/26/2024 10:14:26 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: TonyinLA

Maybe it had been overvalued in order to secure financing. Better get Tish James on the case....


10 posted on 11/26/2024 10:14:40 AM PST by fhayek
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To: BenLurkin

When you factor in inflation the building is worth 1/5 what it was 10 years ago. In 2014 $605 million went a lot further.


11 posted on 11/26/2024 10:18:02 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: BenLurkin

Oh, yeah. Covid. How did I not think of that?


12 posted on 11/26/2024 10:19:36 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: BenLurkin

“ Used to work in that building. Got up to the top floor....once.”

Your once made me think of Johnny Dangerously
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad9mlvyA84E


13 posted on 11/26/2024 10:19:36 AM PST by freefdny
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To: TonyinLA

The drop in value would be greater if valued in terms of hamburgers, eggs, or lumber.


14 posted on 11/26/2024 10:21:56 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: TonyinLA

The drop in value would be greater if valued in terms of hamburgers, eggs, or lumber.


15 posted on 11/26/2024 10:21:57 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The occupants have to figure in their California exit taxes.


16 posted on 11/26/2024 10:24:24 AM PST by sphinx
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To: TonyinLA

>>A $400million drop in value to $190mil...wow. There’s no way the same building could be constructed at its current valuation.

Indeed, in Commiefornia, $190mil would barely pay for all the requisite “environmental” and “social justice” studies before construction could even start.


17 posted on 11/26/2024 10:24:32 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: BenLurkin

Wail til all the unused federal real estate hits the market


18 posted on 11/26/2024 10:25:25 AM PST by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

There are a lot of former office buildings being turned into apartments/condos. Happening in almost every city in the USA.

NYC has the third highest number of housing starts/permits in the country this year to date. Only Dallas/Ft Worth and Houston are ahead of NYC.

They are not building single family homes. They are turning office towers into apartments/condos. They do not use a lot of lumber. Just a whole bunch of steel studs and drywall. Maybe some Fire treated lumber/beams.

Even here in Manchester, NH they took a 22 story building which was the second tallest in the city and turned it into over a hundred apartments. It was originally built in the 1970s.

So, I would assume the same thing is happening in LA too.


19 posted on 11/26/2024 10:29:34 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: BenLurkin
The value of an office tower tends to drop when you have to step over human feces to get in the door.

Strange how that happens...

20 posted on 11/26/2024 10:30:08 AM PST by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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