Other people's money : inside the housing crisis and the demise of the greatest real estate deal ever made

Bagli, Charles V.

Book 2013

The New York Times reporter who broke the story on the Stuyvesant Town sale documents the losses of investor billions by real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, explores how the events surrounding the infamous deal reflected the ongoing real estate crisis.

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Discrimination in housing

Financial crises

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Housing

Mortgage loans

Peter Cooper Village (New York, N.Y.)

Planned communities New York (State) New York

Real estate development New York (State) New York

Real estate investment New York (State) New York

Stuyvesant Town (New York, N.Y.)

Tishman Speyer

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ISBN:

9780525952657

Description:

xxviii, 387 p. : ill., plan ; 24 cm

Notes:

Plan on lining papers
Includes bibliographical references

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

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900080

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