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Thought the U.S. Office Market Was Bad? Try ChinaWorld’s No. 2 economy has a huge oversupply of unneeded office space, in latest sign of country’s weak growthBy Stella Yifan Xie | Photographs by Gilles Sabrie for The Wall Street Journal | 2023.09.20Nearly 24% of office-tower space in 18 major Chinese cities, including Beijing, was unoccupied as of June. HONG KONG—The office market in the U.S. is dismal. In some ways, it is even worse in China.With the country’s economy facing its worst slowdown in years, huge amounts of office space are sitting empty in once-booming cities like Shenzhen and Wuhan, while rents are falling. Nearly 24% of the office-tower space in 18 major Chinese cities was unoccupied as of June, according to CBRE, the real-estate services firm. That is worse than the U.S., where office vacancy rates hit a 30-year-high of 18.2% in June.Unlike the U.S., however, China’s office market isn’t suffering from a significant shift toward hybrid work patterns, which have reduced Western companies’ need for space.China is facing a more basic real-estate problem: Developers simply built too much supply, and now the economy is too weak to absorb it.China’s economy barely grew in the most recent quarter on a quarterly basis, and youth unemployment hit a record high in July. Regulatory crackdowns on the private sector, including consumer internet companies such as Alibaba Group and Tencent Holdings , and weak investment by private firms have depressed demand for new leasing.A wave of new office towers will hit the market this year, adding to the market gloom. “We are closer to the bottom but we aren’t seeing it just yet,” said Henry Chin, head of research for Asia Pacific at CBRE.The Galaxy Soho complex in Beijing, where the office vacancy rate was 18% in the second quarter. Photo: Bloomberg NewsChina’s office and residential real-estate markets accounted for 20% or more of gross domestic product in recent years. The trouble echoes problems in China’s residential real-estate industry, which is mired in a multiyear downturn after developers built too many apartments, and the government tightened credit to cool what many experts believed was an overheated market. Numerous property developers defaulted on their international debt.Analysts are generally less worried about fallout from China’s office market, which is smaller than the residential real-estate industry, though together they accounted for 20% or more of gross domestic product in China in recent years.Most office assets are owned by domestic investors such as real-estate developers, insurance firms and technology giants like Tencent, but some big foreign firms are in China’s commercial property market, too, including BlackRock and U.S. developer Tishman Speyer.Many of the domestic owners have the financial wherewithal to absorb some losses on office assets, analysts say. Still, high office vacancies are indicative of a misfiring economy, and some investors are getting squeezed.Soho China, one of China’s largest commercial real-estate developers, reported a 93% drop in net profit to around $1.9 million in the first half of the year, and said rents and occupancy rates will be “under continuous pressure” as more projects enter the market in the next three years.Many smaller businesses, reeling from years of pandemic curbs, have given up office space.Peak Solution, a German company that provides automobile testing software in China, downsized its Shanghai office during the pandemic and moved to a new building where rent was 30% cheaper to save costs, said general manager Zach Xu.He estimated that about half the space on the company’s floor at its previous office building was empty when he moved out in late 2021 and that the vacancy rate had probably risen since then.The company is now trying to find new customers, Xu said, but it is hard in China’s current economy. “Our goal is to survive this year,” he said.In Wuhan, 63,000 square meters of new Grade A office space coming online helped push the vacancy rate at Optics Valley, a part of the central city popular with technology companies, to a historical high of over 30% in June, according to data from Savills, a real-estate service provider.In Shenzhen, another tech hub in southern China that is home to Tencent as well as hardware giant Huawei Technologies, more than a quarter of office space was empty as of June, nearing the previous high in 2020 during the initial spread of Covid-19, Savills data shows.Tencent, which has been renting 15 floors in a Shenzhen office building since 2011, terminated the lease three years ahead of schedule, said the lessor, Netac Technology, in a filing this January. The early end of the contract was due to “intensifying downward pressure on the economy” and slowing consumption growth, Netac said.A Tencent spokeswoman said in January that the lease termination was a “normal adjustment” of the company’s offices. Departing tech firms helped push up Beijing’s office vacancy rate to 18% in the second quarter, nearly tripling from 2018 levels, according to Savills. As of June, the average national monthly rental value in China dropped nearly 7% compared with 2019, according to data from CBRE.A wave of new office towers will come on to the market this year.
La víctima, de iniciales F. J. R. T. y de 55 años, es el dueño de inmobiliaria Golder Star que se encuentra en esa calle. Los primeros indicios apuntan a que el móvil del crimen es económico, y que la víctima debía dinero al agresor.
Sobran viviendas: estas son las zonas de España donde no se debería construir en 10 añosHay 13 provincias españolas con déficit de viviendaEn España hay un superávit de más de 433.000 unidadesLorena Torío | 2023.09.20Ayuntamiento de A Coruña, Plaza de Maria Pita. Fuente:iStockEn España sobran viviendas. El país tiene un superávit de 433.000 unidades, aunque existen diferencias de calado entre territorios. Por un lado están las zonas donde es urgente construir viviendas y, por otro, aquellas en las que la demanda no es capaz de cubrir la oferta existente.Este último grupo está formado mayoritariamente por localidades de la España vaciada y áreas menos pobladas que suman un superávit de más de 780.000 unidades. Según un estudio realizado por UVE Valoraciones, la provincia de Ourense presenta el mayor superávit del país, con el 20,72% del parque. Le siguen Ciudad Real (18,85%), Segovia (17,18%), Cuenca (15,77%), Lugo (15,65%) y Ávila (12,84%). También superan la barrera del 10% Guadalajara (12,78%), Teruel (12,59%), Toledo (11,66%), León (11,22%), Zamora (10,75%) y Soria (10,22%).Desde la tasadora concluyen que en las zonas con más del 10% de superávit lo más razonable sería "no construir nada en los próximos 10 años", explica Germán Pérez Barrio, presidente de UVE Valoraciones.Sin embargo, otros puntos de la geografía española presentan un desequilibrio destacado entre la oferta y la demanda de vivienda. En concreto, el texto explica que hay déficit de viviendas que suman un total de 327.000 unidades. En este caso, la mayoría se concentran en las zonas urbanas.A la cabeza están Baleares, que se encuentra en una situación "terrible", con una tasa del (6,9%) de viviendas sobre el parque. Por detrás se sitúan Álava (4,49%), Valencia (3,5%), Bizkaia (3,5%), Barcelona (3,24%), Murcia (3,17%), Madrid (2,55%) y Valladolid (1,44%). Con tasas más modestas prácticamente en equilibrio, se encuentran Zaragoza (0,5%), Gipuzkoa (0,27%), Alicante (0,16%), Las Palmas (0,09%) y Navarra (0,04%). Desde UVE Valoraciones destacan que las zonas con mayor déficit de obra nueva presentan las mayores subidas de precio por la "falta de oferta de este tipo de vivienda".Los expertos explican que en las provincias con más actividad turística los cálculos "no son fiables" y algunos resultados que muestran un superávit "podrían enmascarar déficits y algunos déficits pequeños podrían ser mayores". Es el caso de Alicante, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Málaga, Girona, Baleares y Las Palmas y, en menor medida, Murcia, Almería, Tarragona y Castellón. se basa en el cálculo anual del stock de vivienda (dividido en parque total y parque en uso) y hogares a lo largo del período de 1996 a 2023.Áreas funcionalesEl informe también cuantifica las necesidades de vivienda por áreas urbanas funcionales (la ciudad y los los municipios que forman su entorno de influencia laboral). En este caso, la lista está encabezada por Ourense, con 13.322 viviendas, el 12,5% del total. Le sigue Ferrol, con 11.800 unidades, el 12,4%; Ciudad Real, 6.397 viviendas, el 10,3% y Ponferrada, 5.033 casas, el 8,8%.En cuanto a las que tiene déficit de viviendas, diez zonas suman el 83% de las necesidades totales. Se trata de Madrid, Valencia, Málaga, Alicante, Granada, Zaragoza, Pamplona y San Sebastián, que muestran más déficit que sus provincias.La metodología utilizada por la tasadora para elaborar el informe se basa en el cálculo anual del stock de vivienda (dividido en parque total y parque en uso) y el número de hogares a lo largo del período de 1996 a 2023. "La diferencia entre el flujo de viviendas construidas y los nuevos hogares y viviendas secundarias formados a lo largo del período 1996-2023 constituyen la bolsa de vivienda sobrante o deficitaria. Dividiendo dicha bolsa por el parque total de viviendas en 2023 se obtiene una medida relativa que permite comparar los ámbitos territoriales entre sí", explican desde la firma.