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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (110078)3/14/2008 5:13:17 PM
From: PerspectiveRead Replies (6) of 306849
 
Is there a Commercial Real Estate Crash Index thread yet?

Man, reading this Mish post makes me think I need to start leaning against the sector heavily - it's a month old, but still relevant:

minyanville.com

Rob Plaza, Senior Equity Analyst for retail stocks at Zacks Investment Research:

... For the next decade, retailers are not going to have to open a brand new store because there's going to be so many empty ones that need to be filled."

Store Closings

* Movie Gallery closing another 400 stores
* Charming Shoppes (CHRS) closing 150 stores and cutting expansion plans by 50%
* Starbucks (SBUX) closing 100 stores and slowing expansion plans by 34%
* Ann Taylor (ANN) shuttering 117 stores and slowing store growth
* Boston Market evaluating its real estate opportunities
* Buffet Holdings sorting out its underperformers
* Sprint Nextel (S) closing 125 stores and 4,000 distribution points
* Cost Plus World Market closing 18 stores
* Liz Claiborne (LIZ) closing 54 Sigrid Olsen stores
* New York & Company (NWY) axing the Jasmine Sola brand and its 32 stores
* Ethan Allen (ETH) closing 12 stores
* PacSun (PSUN) closing all of its 173 demo stores
* Talbots (TLB) exiting its kids and men's lines through closure of 78 stores
* Rite Aid (RAD) exiting Nevada by closing 28 stores
* Macy's (M) closing nine stores
* Krispy Kreme (KKD) expecting many franchisees to close stores
* Kirkland's Home (KIRK) likely closing 130 stores
* CompUSA's remaining 103 stores being disposed of.
* Rent-A-Center (RCII) closing 280 stores
* Sofa Express closing 44 stores in bankruptcy
* 84 Lumber closing 12 stores
* Home Depot (HD) closings some call centers
* Levitz Furniture disposing of 76 stores in bankruptcy
* Pep Boys (PBY) closing 31 stores
* Lifetime Brands (LCUT) closing 30 stores
* Big A Drugs liquidating its 21 stores

`BC
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