Sam Zell

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With this morning's mixed picture, the answer to the question remains a big "no one knows." August housing starts came in at 571,000, down 5% month-over-month. Building permits were a little better than expected, coming in at 620,000. Economists had been expecting 590,000 starts. This is up 3.2...

At the CNBC Delivering Alpha conference, Carl Quintanilla is moderating a panel about real estate, which includes Bill Ackman of Pershing Square, Sam Zell, Chairman of Equity Group Investments, and Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group. Bill Ackman says that one thing the U...

Last week, Nassim Taleb stated at a conference in Moscow that if he could only make one investment for the next ten years, he would buy land, according to Guru Focus. Taleb based his investment on his particularly bearish outlook for the United States. To give perspective, when it comes to the...

In the past year, the U.S. dollar has declined against virtually every currency and commodity. Will the dollar continue to decline, or is the dollar's recent rally the start of a trend? The U.S. dollar index was over $88 in June 2010. The index currently has a value just over $75 and reached its...

Sam Zell, Chairman of Equity Group Investments, said on CNBC Monday that the Obama administration has hampered the economic recovery by sending mixed signals to business interests. “This administration has gone out of its way to destabilize the business community,” Zell said on CNBC. He also had...

On CNBC this morning, Sam Zell spoke on immigration in the United States. “This is a country of immigrants,” Zell said. “This is a country that has historically been flexible and nimble. I have no reason to believe it shouldn't continue to do that.” Zell said that the idea that we're giving out Ph....

Billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell has said that the current administration's policies have created “political risk” to investing in the United States. He was appearing on a panel at the Urban Land Institute’s real estate summit in Boston. He also equated the United States of 2010 to Nero’s...

Billionaire real estate investor Sam Zell, just finished an expansive interview with Maria Bartiromo on CNBC. Zell said that he believes "we've seen the bottom in the housing market," and housing prices will move higher throughout 2010. Talking about the origin of the financial crisis, Zell said...

Sam Zell is the co-founder and Chairman of Equity Group Investments, a private investment firm. The U.S.-born billionaire and real estate entrepreneur, known for buying commercial properties at cycle bottoms, said he is not yet ready to play the real estate markets. He believes that even though...