Sam Zell

Zell Opts for Debt Investing, Awaits Housing Rebound

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August 21, 2008 8:17 pm

Billionaire Sam Zell, founder of the largest publicly traded apartment landlord in the U.S., is investing in distressed debt instead of real estate stocks or property and expects a housing ... Read more »

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Zell’s Equity Int’l eyes Brazil home builders

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August 20, 2008 6:11 pm

Billionaire real estate mogul Sam Zell, who built a fortune investing in distressed property, sees opportunity in the beaten-down shares of Brazilian home builders and plans further investments in Brazil.Zell’s ... Read more »

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Sam Zell on the Economy

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June 28, 2008 2:19 pm

Billionaire Sam Zell, Equity Group Investments chairman discusses the economy and potential buyers of the Chicago Cubs. watch at CNBC here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=779979675

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Zell Sees Commercial Real Estate Investment Resurging

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May 1, 2008 5:47 pm

Billionaire Sam Zell said institutional investors are beginning to return to the market for mortgage- backed securities that finance commercial real estate deals and new construction.“I believe the overall market ... Read more »

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Zell Invokes Viagra, F-Word Urging Creativity, Speed at Tribune

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March 10, 2008 2:25 pm

Billionaire Sam Zell is traveling the U.S. using pep talks laced with profanity to exhort Tribune Co.’s 19,000 employees to be more creative or risk seeing their jobs disappear.The real ... Read more »

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Zell Sees Start of Housing Recovery in the Spring

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February 27, 2008 2:35 pm

The US economy will avoid recession as the housing market begins to recover this spring, according to billionaire investor Sam Zell.  Speaking on “Squawk Box” this morning, Zell attributed much ... Read more »

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Zell Becomes Starwood Hotels’ Second-Biggest Holder

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February 5, 2008 1:57 pm

 Billionaire real estate developer Sam Zell bought a 7.7 percent stake in Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. to become the company’s second-biggest shareholder, causing the shares to rise 4.8 ... Read more »

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Zell Sets New Tone As Tribune Co.’s CEO

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December 21, 2007 12:03 pm

Real estate mogul Sam Zell strode into Tribune Co.’s ornate headquarters in his trademark jeans and cowboy boots and declared that things will be different from now on at the ... Read more »

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Zell Takes Over Tribune, Closing $8.2 Billion Buyout

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December 20, 2007 11:57 am

Billionaire investor Sam Zell completed the $8.2 billion buyout of Tribune Co., ending the newspaper publisher’s 24 years as a publicly traded company.Zell becomes chief executive officer and chairman, taking ... Read more »

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“Rough Rider”. Profile of Sam Zell

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November 13, 2007 7:41 pm

  April, 2005, Sam Zell travelled to Abu Dhabi to meet Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan. Zell is best known as a real-estate magnate, whose reputation has been ... Read more »

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BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR ZELL HAS NEW LOVE: GARBAGE

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November 11, 2007 11:25 am

Billionaire investor Sam Zell has a new love - garbage.Or more precisely, the waste-to-energy industry, which he believes has a bright future because it is green and, much like commercial ... Read more »

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Zell: Newspapers have been complacent

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October 22, 2007 11:40 pm

Billionaire investor Sam Zell told a group of newspaper executives Monday that the industry’s woes result partly from complacency, responding too slowly to rapid change. Zell, who will become a ... Read more »

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Sam Zell:Professor Risk

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October 20, 2007 1:06 pm

In his office high above the Chicago River, Sam Zell, the real estate virtuoso and master investor, is talking about motorcycles. “I have had accidents over the years,” he ... Read more »

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Tribune Shareholders Back Zell’s $8.2 Billion Buyout

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August 21, 2007 1:54 pm

Tribune Co. shareholders approved an $8.2 billion buyout led by billionaire Sam Zell and must now wait to see if his purchase of the second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher can be ... Read more »

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How Solid Is the Deal for Tribune Company?

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August 20, 2007 4:35 am

When Tribune Company shareholders gather tomorrow in Chicago to approve an $8.2 billion plan to take the company private, an uncomfortable question is sure to be on many of their ... Read more »

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Profile of Sam Zell in Forbes

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May 14, 2007 1:08 pm

A self-proclaimed “professional opportunist,” Samuel Zell founded his privately-held investment outfit Equity Group Investments with Robert Lurie, a fraternity brother, in 1968. The duo started out buying up cheap real ... Read more »

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Billionaire Sam Zell speaks to students

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12:44 pm

Clad in jeans, a brightly striped open collar shirt and a blue suede sport jacket, 65-year-old Sam Zell looked more like an aging poet or former hippie than one of ... Read more »

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