David Levering Lewis Quotes

By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.

Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money. Well, it did collapse.

The problem with real estate is that it's local. You have to understand the local market.

London changes because of money. It's real estate. If they can build some offices or expensive apartments they will, it's money that changes everything in a city.

I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block.

People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession - it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It's not good for the economy.

If you've driven over to the gay section of Los Angeles, it's like a golf course... Real estate values go 'boom!'

Gentrification is what brings in all the money to the cities, but it also pushes some people out.

We just went through the biggest housing bubble in history and now housing prices are starting to go up again. I don’t know what to make of that.

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

When the housing market fell in Las Vegas, we got so many Rolex and Tag Heuer watches it was ridiculous.

New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.

Amazon's been around for 24 years, and now they're doing what any 24-year-old does: move to New York and gentrify a neighborhood.

I'm from Harlem.

I think the thing about New York City real estate is that you kind of just take what you can get when you're renting.

I love New York. New York made me the man that I am, and I always rep it to the fullest, but right now it's completely different from what it was and anybody that says it's for the better is straight up lyin'. Straight up lyin'!

The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.

It's all right. You guys in New York City can't get a hole in the ground fixed, and it's five years later, so let's be fair.

Its all big money, high rent, high prices in New York City now. The poor people completely got rolled over. I've never seen anything like it in my life. It's disgusting.

You have a real asset-price bubble in places like parts of California and the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

The Brooklyn Bridge and I grew up together.

From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation

Some people are afraid of gentrification, but what I see is young people want to live in a different world. And they see possibilities here. They see that rents are relatively cheap compared to places like New York and California.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.