Jul 31, 2015 - 0 Comments - History -

FBF: Old Footage of Florida’s 1920s Land Boom


Florida Land Boom VideoFlorida was the site of an enormous real estate bubble in the 1920s. Fueled by easy credit and advertisers that promoted a lifestyle of sunshine and leisure, contemporaneous accounts describe an overall “herd mentality” madness among Florida investors.  Astonishingly, some lots in the city of Miami were bought and sold as many as ten times in a single day.