The Ledger

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What-if
Schwarzman: Blackstone would have been buried holding all EOP assets
“If we had held all of it, we probably would have been buried.”
Stephen Schwarzman Nov 12, 2019 ▶ 53:12 #69 Stephen Schwarzman: What It Takes
Assertion Partly supported
Schwarzman: Blackstone flipped $70B in real estate in one month
“So, so we bought and sold seventy billion dollars of properties in one month. The most anybody ever had sold in a year was like bought and sold 10.”
Stephen Schwarzman Nov 12, 2019 ▶ 52:45 #69 Stephen Schwarzman: What It Takes
Disclosure
Schwarzman: Blackstone made 3.2x return on Equity Office Properties deal
“We made 3.2 times profit on, on that ten billion.”
Stephen Schwarzman Nov 12, 2019 ▶ 53:07 #69 Stephen Schwarzman: What It Takes
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