London, New York Stand to Suffer

The Wall Street Journal reports on how New York and London could be affected by the financial services bubble:

In bankruptcy-court protection, Lehman's leases could be canceled, leaving landlords on the hook for gobs of space as job growth contracts. If Lehman gives up three-quarters of its roughly 2.7 million square feet of office space, the New York office vacancy rate would rise from the current 8.5% to 11.5%, a level not seen since the period after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to an estimate by Peter Riguardi, the New York president for real-estate brokers Jones Lang LaSalle.

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