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Title Other people's money : inside the housing crisis and the demise of the greatest real estate deal ever made / Charles V. Bagli.
Author Bagli, Charles.
Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Dutton, c2013.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  333.7715 BAG    Check Shelves
 Southwest  333.7715 BAG    Check Shelves
Description xxviii, 387 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-386).
Contents The poster child of the real estate bubble -- "Negroes and Whites don't mix" -- Thirty-six million bricks -- The Golden Age -- Who would drive the last dollar? -- Let's make a deal -- For sale -- "The more you spend, the more we can lend against it" -- What $5.4 billion gets you -- "What do they have against trees?" -- The bubble explodes -- How to lose $3.6 billion in two years -- Reckoning.
Summary Documents how real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billions of investor dollars in a single failed deal and explores how the events surrounding the infamous deal reflected the ongoing real estate crisis.
Subject Real estate development -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Real estate investment -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies.
Stuyvesant Town (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
Tishman Speyer.
Mortgage loans -- United States.
Housing -- United States.
Discrimination in housing -- United States.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Financial crises -- United States.
ISBN 9780525952657 : $28.95
0525952659
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