Irish Jump Into Real Estate Game as Bubble Echoes Grow
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Charles O’Rourke reckons it’s different this time as he jumps into the real estate game.
The 81-year-old retiree says he took “massive” losses on his bank stocks when Ireland’s financial system melted down in 2008. Now he’s joined billionaires George Soros and John Paulson in acquiring shares in one of the real estate investment trusts buying property in the Irish capital, Dublin.