The Wall Street Journal has a piece on the softening commercial real estate market in Riverside-San Bernardino. The money quote: "California's Inland Empire, the two-county region that stretches east of Los Angeles, has gone from a booming development smorgasbord to a basket case in a few short years."
Here is year over year employment change for this metropolitan area:
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Employment growth in this market has been decelerating since 2004, and has been negative for more than a year now. CRE can’t do well in such an environment.
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