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com2kidyesterday at 4:06 PM1 replyview on HN

Sounds like a solution would be to average rent prices over some period of time to account for rental market fluctuations.


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nothercastleyesterday at 4:22 PM

The commercial market is functionally frozen and illiquid. Owners can’t come down without declaring bankruptcy, bankruptcy is bad for lenders because they can’t move the property for the loan amount so you essentially have a mass delusion because accepting reality would bankrupt much of the existing players and start a crisis