George Marcus
$1.5B
$20.4M (-1.3%)
as of 04/08/25
About George Marcus
San Francisco Bay Area real estate broker George Marcus has been in the business for over 40 years.
Most of his fortune lies in a 35% stake in Marcus & Millichap, the publicly-traded real estate brokerage he founded in 1971.
Marcus & Millichap specializes in commercial real estate in the U.S. and Canada, closing nearly 9,000 transactions valued at $42.3 billion in 2016.
Marcus also controls a 3% stake in Essex Property Trust, a REIT he founded that owns more than 60,000 apartments along the West Coast.
Marcus also has a stake in several private real-estate and investment companies, including SummerHill Housing Group and Pacific Urban Residential.
Personal stats
Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Real estateResidence
Los Altos Hills, CaliforniaBirth date
08/15/41 (age 83)Number of children
4Education
Bachelor of Arts/Economics, San Francisco StateSelf-made
self-madeGeorge Marcus’s fortune is worth
25K
troy ounces of gold
23K
median U.S. household
15K
median U.S. income
0.03%
U.S. credit card volume
0.006%
GDP of the United States
0.004%
United States debt
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Did you know?
Marcus was born on a Greek island, northeast of Athens, and immigrated to the United States when he was four with his poor parents.
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Financial assets
NYSE | ESS-US
Essex Property TrustNYSE | ESS-US
Essex Property TrustNYSE | MMI-US
Marcus & Millichap, Inc.NYSE | WFC-US
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