Saddled with pricey real estate and inventory, many retail chains face a bleak future.
Penney has some tough sledding ahead, but that it was the only stock in his portfolio that could return 15 times his investment because it trades at a discount to the value of its real estate and inventory.
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Sears has moved to shutter stores, sell real estate and tighten inventory in an turnaround effort this year.
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If it does, it would remedy the current leadership, which has faltered amid the shift toward online shopping and struggled with large box real estate and related inventory issues.
Such activity creatively destroys many old bankable assets, such as real estate, storefronts and inventory, turning them into "legacy problems" -- albatrosses of land, concrete and steel.
Paying attention to the vagaries of the local real-estate market, where inventory and prices can fluctuate week to week, will offer more guidance to sellers than simple seasonal trends.
Businesses and private non-profit organizations of any size may borrow funds to repair or replace disaster damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory, and other business assets, or to make improvements that lessen the risk of property damage by future disasters of the same kind.
The inventory is holding down real estate prices in many areas of the country and in turn could hold down property values for the long term because the neighborhoods are changing from a community of owner-occupied homes to rentals.
With the glut of foreclosures on the market, banks are holding on to their inventory rather than adding them to an already depressed real estate market.
Clear Capital broke their list down taking into account major economic factors like unemployment rates, foreclosure rates and the size of Real Estate Owned (A.K.A. bank-owned) inventory.
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And, of course, tighter inventory and lower sales are bad news for many in the real estate industry who depend on sales.
Demand for these pricey abodes has ramped up, and inventory has tightened, according to a recent report by Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
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