Other people's money
Subtitle: inside the housing crisis and the demise of the greatest real estate deal ever made
By: Charles V. Bagli
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780525952657
Subjects: Real estate development; Financial crises; Housing; Real estate investment; Mortgage loans; Discrimination in housing; Case studies; Tishman Speyer; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; History
Other titles: Inside the housing crisis and the demise of the greatest real estate deal ever made
Description: 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.
Notes: Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-386).
Table of contents: title: The poster child of the real estate bubble; title: "Negroes and Whites don't mix"; title: Thirty-six million bricks; title: The Golden Age; title: Who would drive the last dollar?; title: Let's make a deal; title: For sale; title: "The more you spend, the more we can lend against it"; title: What $5.4 billion gets you; title: "What do they have against trees?"; title: The bubble explodes; title: How to lose $3.6 billion in two years; title: Reckoning.