1st Edition

Financing California Real Estate Spanish Missions to subprime mortgages

By Lynne P. Doti Copyright 2017
    202 Pages
    by Routledge

    202 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    California was at the epicentre of the collapse of the real estate market in 2008, which had a devastating effect on the world economy. Taking this diverse and powerful state as a case study, this book presents a financial history of the property business, from the time Spanish Missions were established to the Great Recession.





    Financing California Real Estate provides the history of expansions and contractions in the real estate market, and describes factors in the state and nation which may have triggered changes in the direction of growth in real estate lending. It explores how financial institutions which provided funding for building and buying homes changed over time, from the establishment of Spanish Missions in 1769, to the Gold Rush, to rail transportation, all the way through to the real estate bubble that peaked in 2005. Using detailed information on financial institutions to explain the changing nature of the real estate market, this book ultimately suggests an alternative theory for what led to the Great Recession.





    This book will be of interest to researchers working in the area of real estate cycles in the economy, historians interested in the economy of California, and financial historians.

    Introduction and Overview



    Importance of real estate cycles



    Data Sources



    Summary of California Real Estate Cycles





    Chapter 1



    Serra’s Missions to Sutter’s Fort: to 1848



    Chapter 2



    Gold Rush to Land Rush: 1848-1855



    Chapter 3



    The Silver Boom and the Golden Spike: 1860-1880



    Chapter 4



    The Southern California Land Boom: 1881 – 1919



    Chapter 5



    Farming, Oil, Movies and Branch Banking: 1920-1932



    Chapter 6



    Depression and War: 1930 – 1945



    Chapter 7



    Postwar Housing Boom I: 1946 – 1965



    Chapter 8



    Postwar Boom Part II: 1965 to 1980



    Chapter 9



    Crisis, Crime and More Mortgages: 1981-1992



    Chapter 10



    Derivative Chaos: 1992 to 2008



    Chapter 11



    The Financial Crisis and the Future of California Real Estate Financing: 2008-2016

    Biography

    Lynne P. Doti is the David and Sandra Stone Professor of Economics at Chapman University, USA.