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Commercial borrowers have to pay for a valuation report by a bank approved valuer.
by grebc 4mo ago
Commercial borrowers have to pay for a valuation report by a bank approved valuer.
- AnthonyMouse 4mo agoThen why does anybody care if they rent out some of the units for a lower rent?
- grebc 4mo agoYou keep asking the same question and the answer is the same in all these. You don’t like it. We get it. No one is doing anything illegal. If the bank thought a customer couldn’t pay, they’d get foreclosed, end of story.
- AnthonyMouse 4mo agoIt's not a matter of whether I like it. It's a question of why the bank, unless required to do so by some kind of absurd perverse regulatory incentive, would do something which is not only harming others but also increasing the default risk for the bank by reducing the income of a borrower who, if they can't make the payments, will cause the bank to have to write off millions of dollars by foreclosing on an underwater building.
- grebc 4mo agoHarming others is a stretch. You’re also assuming every vacancy has this pigeon holed financial setup. A LOT of commercial property is freehold. I’m honestly at a bit of a loss that people feel they can tell others what to do with their property because it’s vacant. That’s not how society works, and it won’t change to that either.
- em-bee 4mo agoif the society decides that they don't want properties to stay empty, then that's exactly how it works. and yes, it will change to that if people want it. german cities are already discussing options how to motivate owners to fill their properties through various incentives including legal ones.
- grebc 4mo agoGood luck! No one was really discussing in a EU context though.
- PaulHoule 4mo ago... who therefore agree with the assumptions of this broken system.
- grebc 4mo agoBroken how? The owner/bank are fulfilling their obligations. You just don’t like the outcome.
- BrenBarn 4mo agoWhen people are fulfilling their obligations and most other people are not happy with the outcome, that usually means the definition of "obligations" is wrong.
- grebc 4mo agoWay to change the goal posts to suit.
- BrenBarn 4mo agoNot sure what you mean. The goal is a good society. Allowing certain individuals to keep certain things they currently have was never any part of my goal. (I can't speak for others in the thread of course.)
- PaulHoule 4mo agoI picture the banks and the landlords would do better in the long term too if the shops were full. This is not Bluesky leftist "let's take Jeff Bezos' yacht so we can all have 15 minutes of health insurance" but rather "let's have more businesses in this town that can put capital to work, create jobs, create wealth and the kind of consumer choice that Ralph Nader and Ludwig von Mises both agreed on."
- grebc 4mo ago