Housing

Meet the NYC Real Estate Consultants Profiting From Climate Change

Higher Tides Realty helps anxious 1-percenters scope the waterfront property of the future.

A house on New Jersey's beachfront is being elevated to protect against future storms.AP Photo/Wayne Parry

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December 4, 2015 at 11:56 AM EST

RETRACTION, 12/8/15: Higher Tides Realty and its founder, Jake Collins, are fictional, and part of an elaborate hoax designed to draw attention to climate change. CityLab has interviewed Nikolas Gregory, the man behind the stunt. Read the story here. The story below is based on made-up information supplied by Gregory.

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