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Musk’s SpaceX to Buy EchoStar Spectrum for $17 Billion · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 2: And we're deal making for Elon Musk. His SpaceX has
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  Speaker 2: reached a deal worth about seventeen billion dollars with EchoStar
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  Speaker 2: for spectrum licenses that it's going to use to beef
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  Speaker 2: up its Starlink satellite network. We want to talk more
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  Speaker 2: about this deal and what it means for both companies
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  Speaker 2: and the stock of EchoStar, which is doing quite nicely today.
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  Speaker 2: I want to bring in John Butler, Bloomberg Intelligence senior
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  Speaker 2: at Telecom Analyst. He's joining us from our Bloomberg Princeton office. John,
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  Speaker 2: good to see you. Let's just talk with talk about
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  Speaker 2: what this deal is going to allow SpaceX to do
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  Speaker 2: that it can't currently do.
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  Speaker 3: So the key to this deal alexis is a spectrum
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  Speaker 3: called AWS four. So if you look at Starlink and
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  Speaker 3: its sprivals in the satellite space, they all hold spectrum,
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  Speaker 3: but they're not allowed to offer wireless spectrum, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 3: wireless services over that spectrum. AWS four spectrum, according to
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  Speaker 3: the FCC, can be used flexibly. It's called flexible use spectrum,
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  Speaker 3: meaning the satellite providers can offer anything from mobile services
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  Speaker 3: to satellite data, downlink services, video, whatever. It's open use
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  Speaker 3: spectrum if you want to think of it that way.
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  Speaker 3: And so Starlink getting its hands on this key spectrum
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  Speaker 3: will allow them at some point in the future to
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  Speaker 3: potentially enter the wireless market as a competitor to AT
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  Speaker 3: and T, Verizon and T Mobile.
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  Speaker 2: So Echostars shareholders seem to like this deal. The stock
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  Speaker 2: is up about fourteen percent right now. What are they
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  Speaker 2: going to do with the proceeds? What will Echo Star
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  Speaker 2: do with the proceeds of the sale?
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  Speaker 3: So for Echostarre, it's a very good deal as well.
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  Speaker 3: They have really struggled to get their wireless service off
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  Speaker 3: the ground. They've been building this five G wireless network
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  Speaker 3: and have a relatively weak prepaid brand called Boost and
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  Speaker 3: they've really struggled there. So this brings in much needed
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  Speaker 3: funds for them to pay down debt. They've been a
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  Speaker 3: bit stretched on that front, over leveraged, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: this deal together with a deal a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 3: ago with AT and T is going to bring in
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  Speaker 3: billions of dollars to reduce debt. That's number one, and
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  Speaker 3: number two, it brings in fresh capital for them to
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  Speaker 3: invest in the business. And I have a feeling they're
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  Speaker 3: probably going to take a step back and reevaluate the
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  Speaker 3: strategy here based on the fresh funding and side what
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  Speaker 3: the best avenues of growth may be going forward.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm wondering if this is going to satisfy the
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  Speaker 2: FCC this deal, because I know that they were sort
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  Speaker 2: of on Echo Star's case, if you will. They wanted
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  Speaker 2: them to sell some of their airwaves as the company
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  Speaker 2: looks to roll out its five G technology. I know
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  Speaker 2: they sold some spectrum licenses to AT and T recently.
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  Speaker 2: So do you think this is going to sort of
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  Speaker 2: take the FCC off their backs?
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  Speaker 3: I do. I mean, I think Starlink was working with
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  Speaker 3: the FCC. They had written a letter about Echostars under
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  Speaker 3: use of this spectrum. Starlike obviously really wants to get
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  Speaker 3: their hands on it. And I think the FCC really
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  Speaker 3: took their side on this one. I think they understood
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  Speaker 3: that EchoStar, being the only owner of this flexible use.
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  Speaker 3: Spectrum had not really put it to use to date,
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  Speaker 3: so in their view it was being underutilized, and being
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  Speaker 3: such a glasset felt that, you know, a sale might
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  Speaker 3: make sense, and so they really Echo Star really got
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  Speaker 3: into it with the FCC trying to protect those licenses.
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  Speaker 3: But in the end here, I think, if you want
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  Speaker 3: to think of it this way, the FCC won the
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  Speaker 3: day and net I think it's a good deal for
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  Speaker 3: both echo Star and Starlink and the FCC.
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  Speaker 2: Now I knew SpaceX or Starlink had a deal with
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  Speaker 2: T Mobile, right, how is this spectrum acquisition with EchoStar different,
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  Speaker 2: if at all?
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  Speaker 3: So, I think ultimately Starlink could go from being a
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  Speaker 3: partner with T Mobile to being a competitor of Team Mobiles.
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  Speaker 3: As I said a moment ago, this Spectrum opens the
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  Speaker 3: door for them to get into wireless directly without having
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  Speaker 3: to partner with a terrestrial carrier. The current deal with
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  Speaker 3: T Mobile basically has Starlink. I think the best way
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  Speaker 3: to think about it is they're almost like a tower company.
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  Speaker 3: They're providing the space based cell sites, if you will,
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  Speaker 3: to carry T Mobile traffic and they get paid a
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  Speaker 3: fee for that. But they're not earning the level of
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  Speaker 3: profits that you could as as a direct carrier. So
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  Speaker 3: down the road, Starlink, understanding this, wants to enter the
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  Speaker 3: cellular business directly. They have a lot to do before
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  Speaker 3: that happens, but I think it longer term puts the
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  Speaker 3: deal with T Mobile in jeopardy.
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  Speaker 2: And in the remaining seconds we have is seventeen billion
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  Speaker 2: dollars a fair price for the spectrum licenses? Do you think?
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  Speaker 3: You know? Spectrums a very i liquid market, so it's
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  Speaker 3: tough to gauge valuations. But in my mind, I look
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  Speaker 3: at it as a fare price given the potential again
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  Speaker 3: for Starlink to enter this huge market down the road,
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  Speaker 3: and they're very well capped bpitalized as you know, so
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  Speaker 3: I think those two factors together probably make it a
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  Speaker 3: good deal.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a big bank merger to talk about here
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  Speaker 2: this Monday, PNC agreeing to buy Colorado's first bank for
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  Speaker 2: about four billion dollars. This is a big push by
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  Speaker 2: PNC to really go coast to coast and here to
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  Speaker 2: break it down for US as Herman Shan Bloomberg Intelligence
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  Speaker 2: as senior analyst for US regional banks joining us live
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  Speaker 2: here in a New York studios. Herman, good to see you.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: First off, I'm just wondering our regulator is going to
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  Speaker 2: be okay with this because the combined company is going
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  Speaker 2: to hold fifteen percent of deposits in what is it, Colorado.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, in the Denver market. So that's what's real push
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  Speaker 5: for this deal in particular. But the regulartory landscape has
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  Speaker 5: been really great for banking and getting bank deals done.
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  Speaker 5: That's why you've seen some more bank deals over the
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  Speaker 5: past couple of months. You saw Huntington, which is based
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  Speaker 5: in Ohio, go into Texas for Vera tex And you've
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  Speaker 5: see in emerging vehicles in the Southeast with so Novas
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  Speaker 5: and Pinnacle, And this is sort of like the third
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  Speaker 5: large regional bank deal over.
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  Speaker 4: The past couple of months.
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  Speaker 5: So it just sort of signals that the bank, the
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  Speaker 5: Trump administration is really open for bank of an am.
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  Speaker 6: And this is not PNC's first attempt at really expanding
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  Speaker 6: its Colorado presence. It had previously sought to open sixteen
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  Speaker 6: locations in Colorado. Why is Colorado such a hot market
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  Speaker 6: for P ANDC?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 5: I would take a step back and sort of highlight
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  Speaker 5: that the P and C, which is mostly in the Northeast,
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  Speaker 5: mid Atlantic a Midwest, that they've expanded across the sun
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  Speaker 5: Belt states in Colorado with the twenty twenty one deal
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  Speaker 5: for BBVA US and they sort of double down on
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  Speaker 5: those markets with this expansion plan to grow organically by
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  Speaker 5: opening up new branches, and this deal today that they
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  Speaker 5: announced really sort of supports that growth and accelerates it
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  Speaker 5: in Colorado and in Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: So, Herman, you obviously you're a specialist here in US
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  Speaker 2: regional banks. This is your sweet spot. So I'm just
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  Speaker 2: wondering as you look out onto the landscape now, who
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  Speaker 2: might be the next takeover candidate? Who might we be
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  Speaker 2: talking about in the not too distant future.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So you've seen some of these deals where these
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  Speaker 5: slower growth Midwest banks grow into areas like Texas, Florida, Colorado.
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  Speaker 5: So the banks are sort of smaller in size and
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  Speaker 5: we're talking about the first banks about twenty billion in assets,
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  Speaker 5: So banks of Slummer of that size in these higher
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  Speaker 5: growth markets are really attractive to some of these larger institutions.
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  Speaker 6: So with this purchase, PNC's total assets approaches six hundred
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  Speaker 6: billion dollars. It will bring closer to the number one
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  Speaker 6: regional bank, which is US Bank Corp.
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  Speaker 4: Is US Bankrup still a regional bank?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say there are three super regional banks,
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  Speaker 5: and I will put P and C, US Bank Corp
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  Speaker 5: and Truest where they're sort of below that seven to
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  Speaker 5: fifty mark, but larger than your typical regional bank. And
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  Speaker 5: they P and C now is a coast to coast lender,
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  Speaker 5: so and have operations all from the northeast all the
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  Speaker 5: way down to Florida, Texas, California, So you can't really
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  Speaker 5: call them a regional bank at this point.
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  Speaker 4: I would view them as more super regional.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to tie it back to the FED
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  Speaker 2: next week in interest rates, because don't all roads really
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  Speaker 2: lead there? At this point, I want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: what again, if this is going to be an environment
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  Speaker 2: of lower interest rates for the foreseeable future, what is
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  Speaker 2: this going to mean for the banks, but especially these
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  Speaker 2: smaller regional banks, because I'm thinking it may even squeeze
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  Speaker 2: their profitability more.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's interesting because we had a few federick cut
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  Speaker 5: at the end of last year, and the regional banks
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  Speaker 5: that I cover were able to navigate that pretty well.
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  Speaker 5: They're able to keep their net interest margins, which is
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  Speaker 5: a key metric for profitability, fairly stable. And that's one
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  Speaker 5: of the reasons why they've been able to do that
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  Speaker 5: is they've been able to lower their deposit costs, which
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  Speaker 5: was one of the things that really is a key
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  Speaker 5: metric for banks to really show top line growth. On
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  Speaker 5: top of that, lower interest rates could help.
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  Speaker 4: Loan growth.
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  Speaker 5: You've seen some companies like Rockets Mortgage be very abuiliant
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  Speaker 5: for lower interest rates, and so that could help improve
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  Speaker 5: some of the demand for lending, and that's something that
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  Speaker 5: we're seeing so far over.
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  Speaker 4: The first half of the year.
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  Speaker 6: So they'll make it up in volume. What they lose
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  Speaker 6: in profitability, they plan to make up.
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  Speaker 5: They can make it in volume. You'll see some dents
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  Speaker 5: in like the rates that they charge for loans, but
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  Speaker 5: they'll also make it up in volume and lowering their
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  Speaker 5: funding costs.
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  Speaker 6: When you look at the landscape overall of M and
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  Speaker 6: A in the banking sector. It feels like we've been
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  Speaker 6: waiting for something to happen for a long time, and
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  Speaker 6: maybe this is kind of the domino, the first domino
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  Speaker 6: that falls. Yeah, well, the big banks and I'm here,
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  Speaker 6: I'm talking about the JP Morgans, the Bank of America's
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  Speaker 6: well as Fargo's.
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  Speaker 4: Will they play any role in this consolidation.
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  Speaker 5: They're already too big, so there's that they are prohibited
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  Speaker 5: from from doing such deals because they just have dominant
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  Speaker 5: market share in their markets. One thing that we did
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  Speaker 5: see during the height of the regional banking crisis a
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  Speaker 5: couple of years back is that JP Morgan bought First
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  Speaker 5: Republic in an FDIC failed bank acquisition. So if we
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  Speaker 5: in the sense that if there we do get to
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  Speaker 5: a place like that, that's when the big banks can play,
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  Speaker 5: but in a straight M and A type scenario.
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  Speaker 4: To clean up messes. They can clean can't.
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  Speaker 5: Clean up messes, but they can't outwardly buy a bank
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  Speaker 5: at this point, they're just way too big.
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  Speaker 2: And just what about the consumer out there only shopping
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  Speaker 2: for the best deal. You know, it used to be
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  Speaker 2: that these smaller regional banks would be the place to
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  Speaker 2: go for the better CD rates, right or a more
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  Speaker 2: friendly mortgage terms. Is that still the case in the
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  Speaker 2: thirty seconds we've got Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what really great about these markets that P
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  Speaker 5: and C is going to where they can have really
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  Speaker 5: dominant market share in Denver and Arizona and just having
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  Speaker 5: that marketing and having the branches really helps with deposit
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  Speaker 5: taking and helping your consumer out.
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  Speaker 4: Stay with us more from Bloomberg Intelligence coming up after this.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk a little commercial real estate. Now,
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  Speaker 2: call me crazy, but I actually get excited, Scarlett about
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  Speaker 2: commercial real estate, right, John, because I think it tells
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  Speaker 2: us a lot about the broader economy. Let me look
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  Speaker 2: at how it's doing.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's long term investments and so they don't move things,
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  Speaker 6: aren't reacting to day to day movements and expectations on
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  Speaker 6: interest rates. But once rates are moving down, then you
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  Speaker 6: can expect slow gradual movement. But see change in how
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  Speaker 6: people perceive it.
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  Speaker 2: So where are we now? Right after years of high
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  Speaker 2: inflation limited growth, is the commercial real estate industry coming
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  Speaker 2: back to life? We wanted to bring in a pro.
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  Speaker 2: She's here in on New York studio, Lisa, the managing
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  Speaker 2: partner and head of real estate at Eisner Amper. Lisa,
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  Speaker 2: thanks so much for being with us. Just in my
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  Speaker 2: little cosmic world here in Midtown east of Manhattan. I'm
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  Speaker 2: seeing storefronts that had gone empty for so long now
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  Speaker 2: having tenants. I'm going to call it a mini upswing.
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  Speaker 2: Am I right in saying that.
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  Speaker 7: Well, thank you for having me, And yes, I get
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  Speaker 7: excited too while we talk about commercial real estate.
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  Speaker 4: So we're in the right group.
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  Speaker 7: So office in New York has definitely taken a new
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  Speaker 7: surgeons again. And so I think I made a prediction
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  Speaker 7: at the beginning of this year that's saying by the
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  Speaker 7: end of twenty twenty six that we were going to
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  Speaker 7: be pretty much at capacity for New York City, and
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  Speaker 7: vacancy for office is definitely moving down. And so rents
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  Speaker 7: in New York City are about little under seventy five
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  Speaker 7: dollars a square foot and the level of volume is
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  Speaker 7: really close to twenty nineteen, which is really amazing when
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  Speaker 7: you're seeing that so so pree pandemic pre pandemic levels
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  Speaker 7: is the amount of volume that we've seen in office
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  Speaker 7: leasing in New York City, and you can be excited
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  Speaker 7: about other cities.
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  Speaker 4: San Francisco as well.
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  Speaker 7: We talked about earlier in the year with AI dollars
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  Speaker 7: being spent. So when you look at fifty five billion
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  Speaker 7: dollars of AI that was gone has been spent in
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  Speaker 7: San Francisco rents, there are about seventy two dollars a foot.
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  Speaker 7: So for Class I know, that's really exciting. So for
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  Speaker 7: Class A buildings in San Francisco area, that's where the
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  Speaker 7: money's going.
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  Speaker 4: Now, whether we have a bubble or a boom or
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  Speaker 4: what's going.
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  Speaker 7: On with AI, it remains to be seen, but people
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  Speaker 7: are Initial reports are that people are excited and they
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  Speaker 7: do see productivity with AI dollars being spent.
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  Speaker 4: So you know the excitement. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's there, it's real.
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  Speaker 6: We can feel it from you, Lisa, So it makes
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  Speaker 6: sen sense. San Francisco, it's an AI story. What's the
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  Speaker 6: story here in New York Because the call for folks
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  Speaker 6: to return to work the city being busy once again
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  Speaker 6: has been in process for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: Now, is there anything that kind of flipped a switch?
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  Speaker 7: So it's again, what's here in the market in demand?
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  Speaker 7: And so there wasn't a lot of office being put
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  Speaker 7: back into the market, and so now people are absorbing
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  Speaker 7: those office units are there. We always know New York
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  Speaker 7: is still a hub for financial, for entertainment, for all that,
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  Speaker 7: it's still a capital of the world.
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  Speaker 4: So people want to be here.
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  Speaker 7: They want to live here, they want to work here,
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  Speaker 7: and they want to be in that environment. So just
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  Speaker 7: creating that excitement around New York again is really going
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  Speaker 7: to help with the vacancies and bring back the retail
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  Speaker 7: and the retail experience to life, which what you noticed
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  Speaker 7: earlier on Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a big high rise going up not
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  Speaker 2: too far from where I live, and I'm just wondering
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  Speaker 2: who the anchor stores on the bottom will be, because
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  Speaker 2: sometimes those buildings go up and those anchor stores remain
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  Speaker 2: empty for a long time.
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  Speaker 7: So most of those projects have the anchor tenants pretty
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  Speaker 7: much in place when they're penciling or they're doing they're
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  Speaker 7: mapping out the deals and so making sure that it
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  Speaker 7: really does create that energy and that vibe that for
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  Speaker 7: the multifamily. And again, when you look at multifamily, you
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  Speaker 7: really have to make sure that you're able to sustain
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  Speaker 7: the construction costs and the zoning and so a lot
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  Speaker 7: of goes into those projects to make sure that those
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  Speaker 7: will really work, and everybody wants it to work. That's
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  Speaker 7: why we have the City of Yes mandates now and
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  Speaker 7: things are going through. So really, the excitement I think
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  Speaker 7: is there, and I think it's just as you had
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  Speaker 7: said before. It's the long term planning. It's not going
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  Speaker 7: to change overnight. It's really knowing that where we're going
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  Speaker 7: to be in the next five to ten years with
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  Speaker 7: some of these properties.
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  Speaker 4: But the rules of the road have changed, right.
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  Speaker 6: You had the One Big Beautiful Bill, which you know,
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  Speaker 6: the President is a former property developer and in many
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  Speaker 6: ways still is a property developer, So I mean, he
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  Speaker 6: knows what the industry wants and likes.
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  Speaker 4: What did you see in your industry from that bill?
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  Speaker 7: So the real estate industry fed fairly well with One
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  Speaker 7: Big Beautiful Bill. There's of incentives for both affordable housing
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  Speaker 7: for low income housing credits that were awarded by the
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  Speaker 7: federal government. What the states do are now a different
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  Speaker 7: story of how they award those experience.
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  Speaker 4: Points for affordable housing.
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  Speaker 7: Same thing with qualified Opportunity zones, where there's in the
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  Speaker 7: One Big Beautiful Bill there are incentives to go for
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  Speaker 7: some of these economic zones and create new spaces in there,
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  Speaker 7: things with bonus appreciation. So the incentives are there in
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  Speaker 7: One Big Beautiful Bill. It's whether or not the states
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: and the federal governments are going to be able to
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  Speaker 7: work together to make sure that developers can still build
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: in those areas that really really do need economic development
• 17:36
  Speaker 7: and growth.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: You talked about Class A buildings a moment ago. I
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: know Boston has been having some real struggles there and
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: what happens to the non Class A buildings. So all
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the other buildings that would need to be retrofitted or
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: that people they just don't seem that desirable anymore given
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: these new buildings coming up with amenities.
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: So I was in Boston maybe a month ago, and
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: that Seaport district looks great and vibing and.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Doing really things.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: So the A market, as you said.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Before, is going to fare very well.
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: The bee and the obsolete buildings are really going to
• 18:07
  Speaker 7: be the ones that struggle, and that's what's going to
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: remain the scene is does the capital markets, which there's
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: a lot of money out there, where are they going
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: to put those investments to put back into the marketplace.
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: Is it going to continue in the Class A or
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: is somebody going to come and try to revamp those
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: Class bs and the obsolete buildings or what are we
• 18:24
  Speaker 7: going to do with them as those properties? And that's
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: a great question and it'll remain to be seen as
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: in the next seven to ten years of areas. But
• 18:33
  Speaker 7: that seaport district is really exciting in Boston.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I was there just dropping off my son to college
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, and we went for some
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: seafood down by the seaport and it was bustling and
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: it was hard to get a reservation.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean that feels like every city these days.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: I'm telling you, Lisa, how much of your day or
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: how many of your conversations focus around data centers, because
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: that is an area you're smiling alright aside.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Can tell us Polley, would you say more than half?
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't say more than half, but it's definitely an
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: area of interest of where people are dedicating to time
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: to see where it makes sense if they should be
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: investing in data centers building data centers.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: It's interesting we talk.
• 19:06
  Speaker 7: With real estate about square feet everything square foot, but
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: on data centers it's on energy consumption and how much
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: energy usage it is in those centers.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: So it's a little bit different of a mine shift
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: and change.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: And the places that or the regions that can house
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: these centers are much different than when we're talking the
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: downtown Boston and so really it's an entirely different niche
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: within industrial figuring out to make sure that if where
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: dollars get allocated and the excitement around those data centergy
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: and energy, I have to make sure I say it
• 19:36
  Speaker 7: energy consumption.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: In the thirty seconds, we have left the most affordable
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: commercial real estate market right now. Oh that's a tough one.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: That is a tough one.
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: I think when people are looking everyone still likes the
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: sun belts and the mountain regions.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Sure is still because.
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: Again, when we talk about affordable, it has to be
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: where people want to be, and so you need to
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: look to see where people are moving towards and where
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: they want to be around interest rates matter because when
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: we talk affordable, it's what we're going to see what happens,
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: what the Feds do in this month, how many basis
• 20:06
  Speaker 7: points that they reduce interest rates and affordable definitely goes
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: hand in hand with worth seeing that, and we didn't
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: talk about tariffs, thankfully.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: But both both are uncertain days.
• 20:17
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