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                               Bubbles in Florida
                                        
> Land that could be bought for $800,000 could, within a year, be resold for
> 4 million before crashing back down to pre-boom levels. The prices were so
> inflated that to buy a condo-style property in XXXX, you would've had to
> pay the same as you would now have to pay for a luxury home in the guard-
> gated communities in Miami ($4,500,000)—without adjusting for inflation!
> 

Via Florida Real Estate Bubble [1] from The Mess That Greenspan Made: Money
Magazine on “Cashing Out” [2], “The Florida Real Estate Craze [3]”

This is not a speculative article “written” from the perspective of say,
2011, but is instead about a real estate bubble that actually happened in the
state of Florida a while ago.

How long ago?

The $4,500,000 price, adjusted for inflation, would be $494,500,000—nearly
half a billion dollars today.

Too bad for the gentleman that actually spent $4,500,000 dollars back in 1926
for the property.

[1] http://www.stock-market-/
[2] http://themessthatgreenspanmade.blogspot.com/2005/07/money-magazine-on-
[3] http://www.investopedia.com/features/crashes/crashes4.asp

Email author at sean@conman.org

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