Sam Zell, the billionaire with no shortage of opinions ... Over the decades, he amassed some of the biggest portfolios of apartments, office buildings, and other property types in the US.

“He played it perfectly both from a timing standpoint on the exit and then on the process,” Jon Gray said of Zell's $39 billion sale of Equity Office Properties Trust. With successors in ...

“Sam Zell was a self-made, visionary entrepreneur. He launched and grew hundreds of companies during his 60-plus-year career and created countless jobs,” Equity Group Investments said in a ...