More and more retail chains, restaurants are announcing bankruptcy.

The steady income from gov't has been nice, but many Sec 8 tenants are also retail or service industry and have been laid off, so are struggling without additional gov't subsidy.

“Shane Baker, director of retail for the brand, said the company hopes to open next in Alamo Ranch.”https://www.mysanantonio.com/f...

Many of the REITs that have been hammered in the recent downturn hold commercial office space and retail.  

The investor we bought it from was planning to do some work to it and sell it retail, but he happened to get one of our letters in the mail and decided to call us and see what we would offer.The house was located in a subdivision with mostly slab on grade and crawlspace type ranch homes with $110-125K price points.

We debated and debated on whether or not we should do the cosmetic work to it and list and sell it retail for the ARV of $195K, but in the end we determined we would likely make almost as much money just by fixing a couple things and selling it as is.

Thanks,TylerThere will be opportunities to convert vacant suburban retail into these type of spaces.

Someone will buy it, but it will not be a retail price sale. 

That would help the retail market from taking as much of a dive, but the foreclosure auctions will still likely have more deals than cash bidders, driving down the prices.The low interest rates are tempting many to refinance but if the market drops from a flood of inventory, you could end up owing more than the property is worth, for the time being, since the high prices are sort of artificial from the low interest rates.

Retail & office spaces will have to reinvent themselves/repurpose their use, the momentum investors are driving market sectors like tech through the roof, people are moving from stocks to gold and silver, or real estate, which then leads to market analysts posting all sorts of mixed messages about best strategies for growth and preservation.