The thing is, people like to live near where the work is. If one office among many is closing down, that puts these homes right in the centre of the action. Th

The thing is, people like to live near where the work is. If one office among many is closing down, that puts these homes right in the centre of the action. That might make for a good residence and justify the cost. But if swaths of offices are closing down, as suggested earlier, there won't be any nearby work left. Why would people want to live in those converted buildings? "the building is already there" can be said about any ghost town. Hell, in those ghost towns, many of those buildings are houses already. There being a building isn't a compelling enough reason to want to live somewhere.