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Comment by afuchs

An asset can be owned by multiple investors who have competing interests with some wanting to take a large amount of risk by allowing real estate to remain vacant if it can mean a larger reward later.

Louis Rossmann has made numerous videos about vacant properties where asking prices for rent are significantly above what he considers to be market value. Notably, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdfmMB1E_qk and the Reddit post which that video comments on: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/innhah/comment/g4ai27m...

The TL;DR is that there's weak evidence that the contractual conditions attached to financing from investors who seek high risk and high reward makes those landlords ignore local market conditions and incentivizes those landlords to leave commercial units vacant instead of renting them out at market value.

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