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Chicago Real Estate Firm Goes West to Invest
A Chicago real estate investment trust has bought some L.A. housing. Equity Residential, led by real estate mogul Sam Zell, has purchased a 13-story apartment building in Los Angeles for $100 million. The deal marks one of the largest multifamily sales ever in the central business district of the downtown Los Angeles area. The building, [...]
Sam Zell Buys West Loop Apartment Building
A Chicago real estate guru is investing in homes closer to home. Sam Zell, whose firm Equity International has put about $1.5 billion into international markets from Brazil to Chile to Eqypt, has now invested in an apartment development not far from his Chicago Loop offices. According to Crain’s, Zell and his group has purchased [...]
See How Brazil Does Architecture in Chicago
See why Chicago businessman Sam Zell loves Brazilian real estate so much during a free architectural exhibit in Chicago. “Construindo Conexões: Desenho Brasileiro para Cidades Reais,” or “Building Connections — Brazilian Design for Real Cities” is a Brazilian architecture exhibit that is free and open to the public through November 10. On display at the [...]
Chicago Real Estate Puts Chicagoan on List
The annual list of the richest Americans just came out, and the highest-ranking Chicago person made part of his fortune in Chicago real estate. Forbes Magazine released its 2010 list of the 400 richest people in America this week. Chicago real estate investor Sam Zell, of Equity Residential, topped the list of people from our [...]
Sam Zell Provides Insight at Real Estate Conference in Chicago
Chicago real estate investor Sam Zell believes that distressed properties are good investments these days. The billionaire investor, who spoke at the BMO Capital Markets 5th Annual North American Real Estate Conference in Chicago this week, said his firm Equity International is investing in distressed debt including hotel mortgages and a broken condominium deal. Don’t [...]
