Sam Zell, the Chicago real-estate magnate whose knack for buying up distressed assets turned him into a billionaire and earned him the nickname “grave dancer,” died on Thursday, his company said.

Zell was revered as an icon in the investment community, but he had plenty of critics in the world of rental housing. Equity LifeStyle has occasionally come under fire for rent hikes at its ...

Zell sold Equity Office to Blackstone Group in 2007 for $39 billion, the largest private equity deal ever at the time. He also dabbled in media, buying the Tribune Company newspaper conglomerate ...

Bearded and blunt-spoken, Sam Zell reveled in bucking traditional wisdom. AP. The media giant filed for bankruptcy the following year. Real estate was his trademark, but as he noted in an ...

Sam Zell, who made his billions resurrecting troubled businesses that ran the gamut from bicycles to real estate, has died at 81. His death was announced by Chicago-based Equity Residential, the ...

Sam Zell, the proudly foul-mouthed real estate tycoon whose daring buyout of the Tribune Co., the publisher of the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, was riddled by mismanagement, allegations ...

Sam Zell, the Chicago real-estate magnate whose knack for buying up distressed assets turned him into a billionaire and earned him the nickname “grave dancer,” died on Thursday, his company said.

Derek Saul has covered markets for the Forbes news team since 2021. Billionaire Sam Zell, who built one of the largest real estate empires in the U.S. and made his hay by picking up distressed ...