The looming office-real-estate crash will be worse than the Global Financial Crisis decline, Fitch says

• The decline of office values could match or exceed 2008-era depreciation, Fitch Ratings said.
• If office real estate were to recover, it would be a more protracted rebound.
• The delinquency rate of mortgage-backed securities backed by office loans will more than double this year.

The plunge in US office values could match or exceed 2008's real estate fallout, as prices have yet to bottom out, Fitch Ratings wrote in a note on Wednesday.