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@trdny Blood in the streets! Buying opportunities incoming

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The U.S. industrial real estate slowdown may have just hit its turning point.

Q2 2026 data:

• Leasing: 175.7M SF, up 49.4% YoY
• Net absorption: 99.1M SF, nearly 2× Q1
• Vacancy: down 60 bps to 6.8%
• Big-box leasing: up 58.3% YoY
• Asking rents: up to $10.45/SF

The signal isn’t simply that demand improved, it’s that absorption accelerated fast enough to reduce vacancy for the first meaningful time in three years.

But supply is responding: 276M SF is now under construction, up 9.2% YoY.

My read: industrial CRE has moved from oversupply toward equilibrium. Modern warehouses with power, automation capabilities and strong labor access should outperform older commodity space.

The recovery is real but highly selective.

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BREAKING: Big banks are moving back into commercial real estate.

CRE loan originations jumped 50%+ YoY in Q1 even as office distress remains near record highs.

The market isn’t “fixed.” It’s repricing.

And the biggest opportunities appear before the headlines turn bullish.

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@Kevinkrone Hundreds of billions worth of defaults incoming...

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@Kalshi

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This is why higher Treasuries matter for CRE.

Roughly $2.32T of commercial/multifamily debt was originated from 2020–2022, when commercial mortgage rates reached the low-4% / high-3% range.

Now a meaningful share of that vintage is refinancing into a 6%–7% debt market with lower LTVs and tougher DSCR requirements.

When the new loan cannot repay the old loan, the owner has a limited number of options:

1. Write an equity check
2. Bring in expensive new capital
3. Negotiate an extension or workout
4. Sell
5. Default, leading to a foreclosure, deed-in-lieu, or potentially bankruptcy and lender control of the asset

That does not mean every loan becomes a fire sale.
But it does mean owners with good properties and bad capital structures are increasingly being forced into decisions.

Keep dry powder ready.

The opportunity is not simply “high rates.”

It is good real estate with capital structures that no longer work.

[Jeff Feldman @Jefffeldman]

Hate to see it.

But I think we should get used to this for a little bit.

Higher we go.

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@Jefffeldman Real estate investors, get your dry powder ready. lets get to work!!!

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THE CRE REFINANCING GAP, IN NUMBERS:

You will hear that “trillions of dollars of commercial real-estate debt was financed below 4%.”

The honest version is more technical.

There is no single public database that reports the coupon on every bank, agency, life-company, CMBS, and private CRE loan.

But we do know this:

• $614B of commercial/multifamily debt was originated in 2020
• $891B in 2021
• $816B in 2022
That is roughly $2.32T of originations during the cheap-money / peak-pricing era.
Not every dollar was sub-4%.

Not every loan remains outstanding.

But this is the vintage now rolling into the refinancing market.

The Mortgage Bankers Association estimates:

• $875B of commercial and multifamily mortgage debt matures in 2026
• $652B matures in 2027

So what is actually breaking?

Not necessarily the property.
The capital structure.

Here is simplified refinance math:

A property is bought for $100M at a 5.0% cap rate.

NOI = $5.0M

The buyer finances 65% LTV:

Loan balance = $65M

At a 3.5% rate with 30-year amortization:

Annual debt service = roughly $3.50M
DSCR = 1.43x

That loan works.

Now the loan matures.

Assume NOI is unchanged at $5.0M.
The new loan prices at 6.5%, still with 30-year amortization:

Annual debt service on the same $65M balance = roughly $4.93M
DSCR falls to 1.01x

A lender targeting a 1.25x DSCR cannot refinance the full $65M.

Maximum loan proceeds become roughly:

$5.0M NOI ÷ 1.25 DSCR ÷ 7.58% annual debt-service constant = $52.7M

That leaves a $12.3M refinance gap.
And that is before considering valuation.

If the same $5.0M NOI is now valued at a 6.0% cap rate instead of 5.0%, property value falls from $100M to about $83.3M.

The owner now needs new equity, preferred equity, a discounted payoff, an extension, a rescue recapitalization—or a sale.

This is why “the property is cash-flowing” does not solve the maturity problem.

For the owner to refinance the original $65M at 6.5% and a 1.25x DSCR, NOI would need to rise to about $6.16M.

That is a 23% NOI increase.

A lot of properties will not produce that kind of growth before their loan matures.

That is the CRE opportunity set:

Not every building is broken.

But a meaningful number were financed for a capital market that no longer exists.

MBA projects $875B of maturities in 2026 and $652B in 2027; the low-rate versus higher-rate comparison is also consistent with Deloitte’s CRE refinancing analysis. MBA maturity outlook, Deloitte CRE outlook

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Data-center vacancy and power-availability data:
https://t.co/juzjUlHq8z

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The biggest real-estate story in 2026 is not office recovery or apartment supply.

It is that power has become a real-estate asset class.

This week, Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $9.8B AI-data-center lease in Texas for 352 MW of capacity—fully commercializing its 1 GW Beacon Point campus.

That is the important part:

Not the building.
Not the land.
Not the square footage.
The power.
In the data-center market, the winners are not simply buying industrial land and putting up warehouses.

They control the things that are hardest to create:

• utility capacity
• transmission access
• substations
• zoning and entitlements
• fiber connectivity
• cooling and water solutions
• a credible path to deliver power on time

That is why the largest hyperscalers and experienced data-center developers are winning the biggest deals.

They can sign long-term leases, commit enormous capital, work directly with utilities, and secure power years before a building is delivered.

The market is tight because demand is not waiting for construction.

In Northern Virginia—the largest U.S. data-center market—vacancy was just 0.3% in Q1, despite major new supply. Across the largest North American markets, availability remains constrained because power procurement is the bottleneck.

A raw parcel of land is not a data-center site.

A parcel with a near-term, deliverable power path is.

That distinction is becoming worth a fortune.
So how should smaller real-estate investors think about the theme?

Probably not by trying to build a 1 GW hyperscale campus.

Instead, start by looking for the infrastructure bottlenecks around the boom:

• powered and entitled land near substations
• industrial sites with transmission access
• land assembly in emerging secondary data-center markets
• fiber-rich locations near existing clusters
• flex/industrial assets that support the construction and maintenance ecosystem
• opportunities to partner with experienced developers who need local site control

But do not buy “data-center land” because a broker says a market is hot.

Ask:

How many MW can actually be delivered?

Is that power contracted, queued, or merely hoped for?

When can it be delivered?

Is the site entitled for data-center use?

Is there redundant fiber and a realistic cooling plan?

Can the project survive local opposition, permitting delays, and utility upgrades?

The AI boom is creating real-estate opportunity.
But the valuable asset is increasingly not land.
It is land with power, permits, and a path to execution.
Post the Hut 8 news link in the first reply for timeliness: Reuters coverage. The tight-vacancy and power-constraint figures are supported by CBRE’s Q1 2026 data-center report.

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Source for the opening data point: Hut 8 signed a 15-year, $9.8B AI-data-center lease for 352 MW at its Texas campus.
https://t.co/ON0BVhQ10g

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@APompliano yes sir! love the GM posts

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Commercial real estate’s debt problem just got more expensive.

Not because the Fed raised rates this week. It didn’t.

But the 10-year Treasury moved from roughly 4.57% to 4.70% in a week—and that matters when hundreds of billions of commercial loans are coming due.

A lot of CRE was bought or refinanced when debt was in the 3%–4% range.

Cheap money let buyers pay aggressively.

At the time, the math often looked fine:
• low interest expense
• higher leverage
• thinner debt yields
• cap rates that did not need much spread over borrowing costs

Now those loans are maturing into a very different market.

The property may still be occupied.

The tenants may still be paying rent.

The owner may still be current on the loan.

But the new lender is underwriting today’s value, today’s debt yield, today’s DSCR, and today’s interest rate—not the assumptions from 2021.

That can mean:
• a smaller loan proceeds amount
• a lower valuation
• a required equity check to refinance
• a recapitalization with new partners
• a loan workout
• or a sale at a price the old owner does not want to accept

The Mortgage Bankers Association estimates roughly $875B of commercial and multifamily mortgage debt matures in 2026, followed by another $652B in 2027.

That does not mean every deal blows up.

It means every maturity has to be re-underwritten.

And when the new loan cannot replace the old one, “no distress” can turn into a forced decision very quickly.

The next major CRE opportunity may not be vacant buildings.

It may be good assets with bad capital structures.

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@saylor @Strategy Please do something about STRC

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