However, the full impact of that change will take years to be felt because REITs continue to earn revenue on unused space as long as the lease has not expired. and the commute = down hall and to right. Since February 2020, shares have plunged 48.6%, most of it since April 2022, with a big trough in between, and last week they hit $26.41, the lowest price since 2011. City Office REIT Market Cap - YCharts In reality, it will take years for Brandywine to suffer a significant occupancy decline due to its existing leases, while property valuation changes may occur more quickly. Funded by a captured Fed without the sense of a spavin jackass. P/E ratio is a lagging indicator and one of the worst measures of relative valuation. View and export this data back to 2014. The averages up 5% in two days. I cant imagine how the entire industry would be able to, or would want to, shift back to WFO simultaneously to stop this brain-drain effect, especially as VR is poised to make WFH even more like being in a physical office. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); When the real estate market collapsed in CT in 1988, it started with increasing vacancies in the commercial division. I remember asking a passing family member, watching their response to see if they had a similar historically based precarity. The property tax liability remains. Such as Amazon not getting into health care? Forcing someone to come to office is forcing him to become poorer from buying and unaffordable house. Office REITs and Economic Conditions. If defaulted borrower has any intention of buying another vehicle on credit, it would be foolish to default. Considering the interest rate cycle almost certainly turned in 2020 after a 39-YR bull market, thats several decades. You can almost set your watch to it. This is particularly true given the ample available supply - a supply overhang that will linger for much of the next decade. Bad economic news will be good news for the stock market. Yeah, I know these are teaser rates and Im not suggesting this as an investment strategy, but my point is this: Im just a guy opening my mail. Bisnow's REIT Scorecard: The 5 Biggest Office REITs By Market Cap Please disable your ad-blocker and refresh. The pullback in leasing in the technology sector this year has added another headwind to any office market recovery which has struggled as many office workers have continued to work remotely, Savills said. Second, in America isnt it the FTC that should be over the price controls in the forms of monopoly controls and anti-trust laws? the cities with the longest average commutes are New York City, Washington DC, and San Francisco. Seeking Alpha is not a licensed securities dealer, broker or US investment adviser or investment bank. Listed REITs (equity REITs and mREITs) paid out approximately $62.3 billion and public non-listed REITs paid out approximately $5.6 billion in dividends during 2022. Before 2020, most CBD office buildings had the lowest capitalization rates on the market, and many office REITs purchased these properties at or near their peak valuations. With a current market cap of $27 billion, ARE is one of the bigger office REITs in the market, and currently holds a spot in the S&P 500 index. Interestingly, four of the six REIT sectors that underperformed in 2020 were 'repeat offenders' in 2021 as office REITs joined hotels, healthcare, and net lease REITs as underperformers in both years. Within the. It jumped above the 3M and Fedrate. Today they closed at $26.98. Wolf is right,WAH has changed the market in dramatic fashion and was never figured in when they built these office buildings. Stocks were oversold and we were do for a bounce. Insurance no assurance. I/we have a beneficial long position in the shares of RIET, HOMZ, VNO, SLG, HIW, BDN, PDM, DEA, ALX, OPI, FSP either through stock ownership, options, or other derivatives. If you have an ad-blocker enabled you may be blocked from proceeding. In Washington D.C., the availability rate rose to 21.5%, and sublease space jumped to 3.4 MSF. I would also consider HIW, but only at the right price as I want some geographic diversity, but I am not so keen on their asset quality. Copyright 2011 - 2023 Wolf Street Corp. All Rights Reserved. Office REITs - which lagged over the prior two years from persistent pandemic-related headwinds - have been the best-performing major property sector in early 2022. Dont get me wrong, Im grateful that none of the wall street wise guys suffered the last time they set off a significant financial shock as a result of their malfeasance in the housing bubble . Boston Properties [BXP], the biggest of them, reached an all-time high in February 2020, and then plunged in March 2020. As of June 2023 City Office REIT has a market cap of $0.20 Billion . Is this happening to you frequently? Inflation is conquered and tightening is done! Areas like Bend.OR, St George,UT, Boise,ID, Mt Juliet,TN, and others are booming. One of the most dramatic trends this year has been the downfall of many REITs, particularly office REITs, most impacted by falling demand. Small-cap City Office (CIO) doubled last year after a large asset sale of its entire Sorrento Mesa portfolio which suggested that CIO - along with the majority of office REITs - were (and still are) trading at meaningful discounts to their private-market-implied Net Asset Value. These shares are now back where theyd first been in 1995 (data via YCharts): The somewhat smaller office REIT Equity Commonwealth [EQC] is down 31% from February 2020 and down 65% from its all-time high in February 1998. Analysts Disclosure: I/we have no stock, option or similar derivative position in any of the companies mentioned, and no plans to initiate any such positions within the next 72 hours. Further, if physical office occupancies remain so low in the company's operational areas and its vacancy rate eventually rises as high as suggested, then BDN would likely become worthless. In Seattle/Puget Sound, the availability rate rose to 20.3%, the highest in the data. Housing Bubble 2 And since their most recent lower high in January 2020, shares have plunged 66%. Alexandria Real Estate Equities Isn't the Bargain You Think It Is AI Tech Powers Data Storage Centers in REIT Investment Space And some of them are now back where theyd first been in the 1990s and even the 1980s. Thanks for the article. These many levels of corporation structure drive me nuts.who OWNS who? The views and opinions in all published commentary are as of the date of publication and are subject to change without notice. The opposite might be true in places like Florida and Arizona where people might want to spend the day in a place where the company pays for increasingly expensive air conditioning. The question is what happens if or when WFH ends? Office REITs lagged over the prior two years from persistent pandemic-related headwinds. 3) In Sept 2008 LIBOR3 went crazy. iBonds are yielding a lot more. WFH is here stay for industries where it is possible. A very large percent of workers in the IT/developer departments of this firm are 100% WFH, and out of state or country from any physical office. That said, if Brandywine were able to liquidate all of its assets today at market rates (which is not necessarily likely), it might have a net equity value of around $2.59B, or over twice its current market capitalization of $785M. That wasnt bad economic news: it showed a slight softening of the most contorted labor market ever, and thats good economic news: https://wolfstreet.com/2022/10/04/layoffs-quits-job-openings-hires-slight-softening-of-contorted-labor-market-amid-still-massive-churn-and-job-hopping/. A lot of jobs have been shrunk,duplicated, and eliminated by leaps in software and the cloud. Well get to those big office landlords in a moment. Personally, I am not bullish on BDN and believe it is a better "hold" today. Importantly, Philadelphia has one of the highest crime rates among U.S cities, with generally fast growth, encouraging many large companies to avoid or leave the city, while many of its small businesses close. Any views or opinions expressed above may not reflect those of Seeking Alpha as a whole. Staggering decrease to physical office occupancy in central business districts has led to a massive departure from office REITs. Leasing activity fell to 1.0 MSF, the lowest since the lockdowns, and less than half the activity during the last three pre-pandemic Q3s. By market cap-weighted average, 65 percent of the annual dividends paid by REITs qualify as ordinary taxable income, 17 percent . Asking rents had peaked in 2019 and have been sliding since then. Leave the solitude of the mountains for the calamity of the city on the coast. I am long BXP in the 70's and plan to hold it long term. As of the close today, shares have plunged 81% from their all-time high in August 2000. For many, WFH will transition to "hybrid" work environments over the next quarter, setting up a "now or never" dynamic for utilization rates that corporate decision-makers will be monitoring closely. Office REITs usually prosper when economic conditions are strong because of competition for office space that drives up rents. The Pressure/Benefit of Automation Processes is now Adding the assets and subtracting liabilities, we arrive at a "low-end" NAV estimate of $890M, much closer to its current market capitalization. Next big one is the unemployment report on Friday morning. As noted above, office REITs are some of the most pro-cyclical sectors and as a result, provide some of the better inflation-hedging properties of any REIT sector despite their rather healthy dividend yields. Been there, done that. That figure is based upon the increase in mortgage rates, real interest rates, and the historically strong relationship those figures have to capitalization rates. , we track the 23 office REITs, which account for roughly $95 billion in market value and comprise 6-8% of the market-cap-weighted REIT Indexes. An ingenious device for obtaining profit without any individual responsibility. The shares of the five largest office REITS by market cap have all plunged from their recent highs - and some of them much more from their distant all-time highs. its hard to get excited about this one because it seems its heavily invested in Philly which I dont believe is compelling . San Francisco is second with 28.9%, and shooting higher. You can donate. There is no guarantee that any outlook made in this commentary will be realized. The county requires the property owner to secure the area if its a hazard and the debris must be removed (and paid for by someone). The countries that have raised their interest rates starting in early 2021 and well ahead of the Fed such as Brazil and Mexico and I covered those, they are doing just fine, and their currencies are holding up just fine against the dollar. Futures up nearly 2%, looks like happy days on Wall Street are here again! For commercial, a major change is in software companies where WFH is very much possible. Regardless, itll be interesting to watch what happens. I felt disgust, watching the feeding frenzy that occurred on Wall Street this past two days. Commercial is not localized to Houston now that is obvious. Some of them had hit their all-time highs in 1998 or 2000 or 2007, and theyre down 65% and 75% from those highs. The precious job I had at a big Semi truck parts warehouse gutted most of the front end office jobs with auto billing the automation of the process with the dealerships. I was in, watched it drop, got out, now back inwell see where this goes, but I think it will do well in the upcoming months. These companies will price their sublease space aggressively since they dont have to make a profit on this office space, but just want to lower their costs of holding it until the lease expires. The market capitalization, commonly called market cap, is the total market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares and is commonly used to measure how much . First, isnt that stepping on the toes of independent FEDs in most countries. $2.69 B: $23.60: 1.38%: USA: 87: SITE . I do not necessarily expect this "doom loop" scenario to occur in all urban areas, but Philadelphia's troubles indicate that it is a significant long-term risk factor. Hi everyone - Thanks for reading this article and hope you found it helpful! With dower predictions that the credit crisis is already underway from several, credible sources that have the intestinal fortitude to publish their misgivings. Bad economic news will be good news for the stock market. These other countries need to raise their interest rates ahead of the Fed, and if they did QE (Japan and European countries/Eurozone), they need to do QT. Read the article. The most office space was added in Seattle/Puget Sound (5.2 MSF), Boston (3.3 MSF), and San Francisco (2.2 MSF) over the past year. A property without demand has a negative value as it must be demolished. When I asked about our small raise, and the fact that housing (near the office) is 7 x our average salary, they said we are WFH. Biggest in Seattle, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Portland, Dallas. Office REITs have shown signs of life on the acquisition front in recent quarters, particularly the Sunbelt-focused REITs with a more attractive cost of capital, recording $13.3 in acquisitions in 2021, the highest since 2017. Is there a cash advance fee associated with this offer? Who knows, maybe a bunch of towers together all converted to condos and multi family rentals would be good, too. If you bought during most of the time since then, your dividend yield was a lot lower, and your capital loss was high, and thats just a bad deal (data via YCharts): Highwoods Properties in February 2020 got close to matching their all-time high of 2016. Income Builder is the new premier income-focused investing service on Seeking Alpha. Also, since I was caught in Hurricane Ian (about 30 miles N of Ft. Meyers) I am just now getting access to power and internet so go ahead and recall the Search and Rescue team as Im back in the comments, baby! 170.14M Minimum May 16 2023. I grew up in the mountains, seeing the ocean for the first time when I was too old to get the vibe. This is why the Fed cannot hike too fast because the market wont be able to digest the rate hikes. The bold column shows the net amount of office space added since Q3 2021, in million square feet a total of 19.3 million square feet of net new office space was added in these 12 markets in one year. Please consult with your investment, tax, or legal adviser regarding your individual circumstances before investing. Leasing activity in Q3 fell to just 1.1 MSF, the lowest in many years, lower even than during the lockdowns, and about half the five-year average activity. Its spring selling season, when prices always rise month-to-month, and they did, but it wasnt enough. Everyone works from home, Not Just for Blue Collars anymore That said, investors should also not overestimate Brandywine's recovery potential and should be mindful of other factors that could affect the firm. It too had a high yield until it went bust and the dividend was eliminated. I just finished up a WFH stint with a large global enterprise (approx 120,000 headcount). Build sustainable portfolio income with premium dividend yields up to 10%. Early in the pandemic, we theorized that "Work From Home" would be more permanent than many suspected, and that the recovery in office demand would be quite uneven across metros. Corporate Office Properties Trust OFC. I will send the whole report if you want it. Any views or opinions expressed above may not reflect those of Seeking Alpha as a whole. However, my "base case" valuation range for BDN is $890M to $1.62B, which is 13% to 105% above the company's current market capitalization. Tech is moving out of the latest and greatest, and no one is moving in behind it. In addition to any long positions listed below, Hoya Capital is long all components in the Hoya Capital Housing 100 Index and in the Hoya Capital High Dividend Yield Index. The finding that two-thirds of employees place significant value in working-from-home is remarkably consistent across many similar surveys including from KPMG, which found that only a third of workers wanted to see a return to the five-day in-person work week. It is only my feeling, having no affidavit that attests that I have any specific intelligence about the housing market other than hearsay. Canada If you read your homeowners policy, the expensive toys must be insured separately. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. There is no guarantee that any historical trend illustrated herein will be repeated in the future, and there is no way to predict precisely when such a trend will begin. But by not hiking fast enough, the patient lingers in hospice care. By that measure, it does appear that BDN is likely undervalued today and that the market may be materially overestimating the impact of today's objectively negative conditions. We expect a 15-20% decline in office space per employee by the end of 2030 as a reduction in traditional desk space is partially offset by more workplace amenities. For an in-depth analysis of all real estate sectors, be sure to check out all of our quarterly reports: Apartments, Homebuilders, Manufactured Housing, Student Housing, Single-Family Rentals, Cell Towers, Casinos, Industrial, Data Center, Malls, Healthcare, Net Lease, Shopping Centers, Hotels, Billboards, Office, Farmland, Storage, Timber, Prisons, and Cannabis. I could go buy a brokered CD from the same bank yielding about twice that. The UN has now joined the chorus of moar free money! LOL, In Los Angeles, the availability rose to a record 25.4%. As companies leave and crime rises, higher-income people and more valuable companies will also need to leave. Its "P/FFO" is also extremely low at 4X; however, again, I greatly discount that figure due to the likely sizeable negative trend in its FFO over the coming years. As long as the shills and mountebanks keep braying about a pivot its not going to happen. Total re work of the Business Process $6.33 B: $37.48: 1.50%: Canada: 38: Mapletree Commercial Trust . FSp has them in the Sunbelt. A place to network. Leasing activity jumped to 3.8 MSF, roughly in line with pre-pandemic activity. As expected, two years into the pandemic, office utilization rates have recovered only a fraction of pre-COVID levels, particularly in these largest coastal transit-heavy markets. Accordingly, many investors are speculating on the stock regarding its deep value potential or the possibility of it losing the little value it has left. The market capitalization sometimes referred as Market Cap, indicates the value of a publicly listed company. I remember back in 2008 and my father in law was encouraging me to buy the market. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. Nothing on this site nor any commentary published by Hoya Capital is intended to be investment, tax, or legal advice or an offer to buy or sell securities. Working backward, based on its TTM NOI, I estimate that the REIT's implied capitalization rate is around 14% ($290 / ($784 + $2390 - $1110)). Disclosure: Hoya Capital Real Estate advises two Exchange-Traded Funds listed on the NYSE. I cant shake the image of the wall street wise guy selling a bloke a share and, immediately, borrowing it back and shorting it. Finally, can the UN have an impact on our Feds pivot plans? Given the high degree of fixed costs incurred in managing an office property - whether fully occupied or mostly vacant - operating leverage is quite high. The most valuable office reit in the world is Alexandria Real Estate Equities (ARE) with a market cap of $20.101B, followed by Boston Properties (BXP) and Gecina (GECFF). A big issue is sublease space. This makes no sense I could go buy T-bills yielding almost twice that for near zero risk. The availability rate dipped to the still worst in the US of 30.7%, but thats down from 31.1% a year ago. 26). Nobody can network in basket ball or any other kind sport where age is a much larger advantage, not to mention height, body condition, stamina, speed, coordination, etc, etc, etc, that I know of. The market is now giving the Fed another all-clear-for-a-rate-hike signal. With a $290M NOI at a 7.5% capitalization rate, the company's properties are currently worth around $3.87B. I expressed my bear market scenario to him and still remember his response: Hey Wolf, its interesting that all of these firms share price seemed to go up during the pandemic was it the Fed buying into the Corporate Bond Market (bail out for REITs) or just the sloshing of cash? They get bupkus. This is how the market digests those rate hikes Im going to do some more thinking about this because it may be worth an article. The insured may get an emergency advance of $10k or so, but will need to reconstruct their possessions on a claim form and, if the hurricane blew them out into the ocean, its tough to prove to an adjuster that you had an 18K Rolex Daytona that you got as a gift from your ex-girlfriend who returned to Russia. Instead, one overlooked factor determining how fast - and to what extent - employees returned was employee commute times. And they should get crushed. /s. Or fleecing Americans with price gouging? Within the Hoya Capital Office REIT Index, we track the 23 office REITs, which account for roughly $95 billion in market value and comprise 6-8% of the market-cap-weighted REIT Indexes. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). 1. On that note, the supply dynamic certainly hasn't helped, either, as construction spending on office development ramped up after the 2016 elections, spurred by the passage of corporate tax reform and strong job growth of key office-using sectors. But in Houston, the worst may be finally over. But things are getting slightly less bad. Companies: 12517 Total Market Cap: $85.7T it the weekly ma200 will turn down for the first time since Sept 2008. Personally, I think that current real estate bubble is several multiples worse. Federal Reserve Founded: 1978. SL Green Realty Corp [OFC] is down 60% from February 2020 and down 75% from its all-time high in 2007. A complete discussion of important disclosures is available on our website (www.HoyaCapital.com) and on Hoya Capital's Seeking Alpha Profile Page. Office vacancies of 30 pct in the glow of excess, anchored, speculation. Based on other analyses, I expect capitalization rates for most commercial properties in the US to eventually rise by around 3% from the 2021 minimum level. The work from home full time push is definitely receding. Must still make payments unless bank allows forbearance (but interest will still accrue). Data quoted represents past performance, which is no guarantee of future results. Sign up here. This is where the new ESG credit scores are making a big impact in business dealings. Philadelphia has one of the highest vacancy rates for offices in the US at 23.5%, compared to pre-pandemic levels of ~15%; however, the city's office physical occupancy rate was only 48.8% (vs. 57.7% nationally), meaning that a great deal of leased space is not being used. (Many Legal Bookeeping/Accounting and Tax Specialists 23.5%, compared to pre-pandemic levels of ~15%; however, quickly despite the enormous unused office space in urban areas. Office REITs are investments pertaining to owning, managing, developing, operating, and/or leasing office buildings. But that era is over. 1 year interest free for as low as 2%. With an increasingly tight labor market, employees - not employers - will chart the future of the workplace. In CBRE's 2022 U.S. Real Estate Market Outlook report, the real estate brokerage firm forecast that the national office vacancy rate will reach its highest level since 1993 in 2022 due to elevated levels of new supply, which will keep market conditions decidedly in favor of tenants. But even the owners of the latest and greatest have to deal with the glut, and they cant get the rents that make those towers work. 5. Index definitions and a complete list of holdings are available on our website. The biggest office REITs publicly traded landlords that specialize in office properties have gotten massacred in the stock market since March 2020, after having already had a hard time before. (Friends of ours went through this several years ago in St. Pete Beach). well break time is over and its time to go back to work I am curious to see if they can control the fleecing of house prices by taking the National Realtors and Mortgage orgs to task. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). Most REITs trade on major stock exchanges, and they offer a number of benefits to investors. 2) The weekly Dow Nov 2/9 2020 gap is still open. To ensure this doesnt happen in the future, please enable Javascript and cookies in your browser. A trend we will see this winter in Europe, and perhaps here in a few years is work from home fading as people head in to the office to get warm for a few hours a day. Click on the beer and iced-tea mug to find out how: Would you like to be notified via email when WOLF STREET publishes a new article? But available sublease space rose again, after falling, to 7.7 million square feet (MSF). The table below shows the 12 office markets for which Savills released its Q3 office reports today, in order of the availability rate. Unless this company has a dramatic downsizing/layoffs in their future (such a scenario would surely be part and parcel of a global economic crisis/great depression), these workers are staying and arent going to be replaced. Citing robust job growth over the past twelve months - particularly in office-using professional jobs, leasing velocity increased by 9.2% in Q4, lifting full-year leasing volume 14.6% above 2020 levels, while vacancy rates plateaued. Cars & Trucks California Daydreamin Its messy like all digestion processes but it seems to work. The backdrop is so human. REITs like to use . I am not beholden to the location.
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