The results of last week’s special Property-Whore Index suggest that even when it comes to mind-numbing real-estate squabbles, competitors with name recognition benefit. Jared Kushner and his plan to develop—sorry, ruin—the beautiful Albanian coastline with a high-end resort ran away with the prize (39.1 percent). The runner-up, with his own plan to develop—sorry, ruin—pristine Florida parkland for pickleball and golf was Ron DeSantis (18.6 percent). People, in other words, who are all too familiar to us. Third place went to Ken Griffin, another Florida ersatz developer (11.1 percent), and Patrice Pastor, who’s been busy buying up chunks of Carmel, California, was fourth (9.9 percent).
But now we return to the Attention Whores, who, by definition, have not exactly been on vacation during the interregnum.
