China: Beijing Seen Vacant for 50% Commercial

[BoyRacer]

Beijing Seen Vacant for 50% Commercial as Chanos Predicts Crash → bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= … K__QRxjnQM

Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) – Jack Rodman, who has made a career of selling soured property loans from Los Angeles to Tokyo, sees a crash looming in China. He keeps a slide show on his computer of empty office buildings in Beijing, his home since 2002. The tally: 55, with another dozen candidates.

“I took these pictures to try to impress upon these people the massive amount of oversupply,” said Rodman, 63, president of Global Distressed Solutions LLC, which advises private equity and hedge funds on Chinese property and banking. Rodman figures about half of the city’s commercial space is vacant, more than was leased in Germany’s five biggest office markets in 2009.

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[ncallanan]

Good article