[bobthepanda]

Commercial loans are not like residential mortgages and often the loan is based on a minimum rent. If you go below that then you are in default.

[triceratops]

How do they make mortgage payments without rent?

[bobthepanda]

* own a portfolio of real estate, so losses in one area can be offset

* own a mixed use building, so an empty ground floor retail space can be offset by multiple floors of apartments

also, if the rise in equity outpaces the losses in rents it can still be net positive