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Survey: Interest rates, sales drop cause annual high in rent delinquencies


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 8:00 a.m. December 4, 2023
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Rent increases, when paired with high interest rates and declining revenue, not surprisingly, makes for a toxic concoction in terms of small businesses paying rent on time. 

That’s the key takeaway from Alignable’s November Rent Report. The headline: More than four of every 10 small businesses nationwide, 41%, couldn’t pay rent on time and full in November, the report from the small business online networking website found. That’s the highest monthly rate of 2023. It’s 1 percentage point over 40% in each of September and October, and 11 points higher than the low point of the year, 30% in January.

The good news, at least for the Sunshine State, is Florida had a 27% delinquency rate in November. That’s down 18 percentage points from 45% in October, the report found. 

 


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Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon is the managing editor of the Business Observer. He has worked for the Business Observer since 2005. He previously worked for newspapers and magazines in upstate New York, suburban Philadelphia and Jacksonville.

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