Rank #114
Harry Triguboff
Net worth $23.4B
Real estate · Australia
- Born
- Mar 03, 1933
- Age
- 93
- Source
- Real estate
- Residence
- Sydney
- Citizenship
- Australia
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Leeds
Net worth over time
Biography
- Harry Triguboff is one of Australia's richest people. Born in Dalian, China, to Russian parents, he came to Australia as a teenager.
- Triguboff found success in business by providing higher-density living options in Sydney, Australia's largest city, which has traditionally been dominated by free-standing homes.
- His apartment-tower development company, Meriton, has a strong presence in Sydney, while it also has an imprint in southeast Queensland.
- He was one of Australia's first developers to see the potential of apartment living when most of his countrymen aspired to single-family homes.
- Nicknamed "High Rise Harry," he has put up more than 79,000 apartments.
- He began his working life in the textile business, making his move into real estate in the early 1960s.
- He built his first apartment block in the Sydney suburb of Gladesville.
- Triguboff established a center in Israel that focuses on immigrants and Judaism.