George Marcus

$1.65B
$8.1M (-0.5%)
as of 10/04/24

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 America

Source of wealth

Real estate

Residence

Los Altos Hills, California

Birth date

08/15/41 (age 83)

Number of children

4

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Economics, San Francisco State

Self-made

self-made

George Marcus’s fortune is worth

28K

troy ounces of gold

25K

median U.S. household

17K

median U.S. income

0.033%

U.S. credit card volume

0.007%

GDP of the United States

0.005%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

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.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NYSE | ESS-US

Essex Property Trust

NYSE | ESS-US

Essex Property Trust

NYSE | MMI-US

Marcus & Millichap, Inc.

NYSE | WFC-US

Wells Fargo

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