Housing
We Fell For a Hoax: That Climate Change Real Estate Agency Is 100% Fake
The guy posing as an evil property consultant tells us why he did it.
“Look, we understand that global warming is this terrible thing,” Jake Collins told me last week. “But our company’s reaction is saying, ‘No, we can cope with this in a financially stable way. This is bad, but there’s also this ridiculous opportunity.’”
Collins was presenting himself as the founder of Higher Tides Realty, a boutique real estate consultancy that advises wealthy property owners on the best places to invest ahead of climate change’s effects. You know—check out the estates on Florida’s far-future shoreline.