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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bagli, Charles V.
Imprint:	New York : Dutton, c2013.
Description:	xxviii, 387 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Tishman Speyer. Tishman Speyer. Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009) Real estate development -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies. Real estate investment -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies. Mortgage loans -- United States. Housing -- United States. Discrimination in housing -- United States. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. Financial crises -- United States. Discrimination in housing. Financial crises. Housing. Mortgage loans. Real estate development. Real estate investment. Stuyvesant Town (New York, N.Y.) -- History. New York (State) -- New York. New York (State) -- New York -- Stuyvesant Town. United States. Case studies. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9046022

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Inside the housing crisis and the demise of the greatest real estate deal ever made
ISBN:	9780525952657 0525952659
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-386).
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.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Poster Child of the Real Estate Bubble
Chapter 1. "Negroes and Whites Don't Mix"
Chapter 2. Thirty-Six Million Bricks
Chapter 3. The Golden Age
Chapter 4. Who Would Drive the Last Dollar?
Chapter 5. Let's Make a Deal
Chapter 6. For Sale
Chapter 7. "The More You Spend, the More We Can Lend Against It"
Chapter 8. What $5.4 Billion Gets You
Chapter 9. "What Do They Have Against Trees?"
Chapter 10. The Bubble Explodes
Chapter 11. How to Lose $3.6 Billion in Two Years
Chapter 12. Reckoning
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
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