The widows of the Vanderbilt tycoons who had built the New York Central Railroad sold their ponderous mansions on Fifth Avenue — urban châteaus that lined «Vanderbilt Alley» from 42nd Street to Central Park — to real
estate speculators like Benjamin Winter and Frederick Brown.
Not exact matches
It is a fact that, numerous new real
estate speculators neglect to view their vocation as a financial specialist in a business; rather they treat it
like a hobby.
Tales
like this have been fueling accounts in the media that housing prices are being artificially inflated by
speculators who, with little interest in the single - digit returns they can obtain in the stock and bond markets, have trained their sights on real
estate.