Real Estate Boom

The $20 Billion Gamble: The Greatest Coup in Financial History

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business


Blake Fleetwood

Paulson made his bets in late 2006 just as the sub-prime mortgage markets were starting to weaken. His timing was impeccable, as was his luck.

Harlem's Real Estate Bubble Bursts

New York Times | CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY | Posted 08.08.2009 | New York


Of all the New York City neighborhoods swept up in the real estate boom of the last decade, few became as hot as Harlem. It grew increasingly gentrifi...

Florida Caught In Eye Of Burst Real Estate Bubble

New York Times | Peter S. Goodman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Two years ago, when Eric Feichthaler was elected mayor of this palm-fringed, middle-class city, he figured on spending a lot of time at ribbon-cutting...