Founders edition: Los Angeles’ top 100 real estate players 

Here’s an additional finding from The Real Deal’s recently published top 100: the founder factor is real.  Our selection of the most prominent people in Southern California real estate has a lot of founders, who, even if they’ve stepped back on paper, still appear to be very much in.  There is no better example than founder-turned-chief-executive-turned-executive-chairman Rick Caruso. The billionaire mall developer founded his real estate empire in the late 1980s and was CEO until 2022, when he ran for Los Angeles mayor against Karen Bass and named Corinne Verdery as his successor. Verdery still runs the company on a […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.