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It's about investment funds and shareholders owning commercial property who push for RTO out of fear of their portfolio going down in value if people are not us

• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > investment funds and shareholders owning commercial property Are you in San Francisco? This is a conspiracy theory I hear a lot in San Francisco.
  • alephnerd 2y ago
    It's a dumb conspiracy theory at the macro-scale, and the overlap between CBRE or JLL and a company's board is minimal
    • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      It is, but I’m curious about why it’s so popular. Is it a Musk thing?
      • alephnerd 2y ago
        It's an HN+Reddit thing. The userbases overlap significantly now.
        • consteval 2y ago
          To be fair I think the only reason the conspiracy even exists is because, apparently, nobody knows what RTO is really about. IMO it's mostly just a power play and insecure executives, but they won't come out and say that of course. We're left to speculate, and naturally conspiracies thrive.
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    • varispeed 2y ago
      https://unherd.com/newsroom/a-commercial-real-estate-crisis-is-coming/ https://unherd.com/newsroom/a-commercial-real-estate-crisis-... https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/commercial-real-estate-crisis-empty-offices/674310/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/commercial... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-02/how-home-working-and-higher-interest-rates-tipped-real-estate-into-crisis https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-02/how-home-... https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/27/office-blocks-banking-crisis-interest-rates-commercial-property https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/27/office-bloc...
      • JumpCrisscross 2y ago
        None of these articles prove your argument.
        • varispeed 2y ago
          Did you read them?