Top 5 Real Estate Billionaires in the World

3. Yang Huiyan

Net Worth: $27 billion

Yang Huiyan inherited property from her late billionaire father. She is considered the wealthiest woman in the entire Asian region with an estimated net worth of around $27 billion in 2018. She ranks 3rd in our list of top real estate billionaires.

Yang’s company, Country Garden Holdings, enjoys an international repute, mainly in Australia and Malaysia. The most popular project of Country Garden Holdings is the Forest City. It is a major investment as the project needs $100 billion to complete successfully.

Yang has shown great business skills as a real estate developer. She has been actively contributing to the Country Garden Holdings since she was 20. In 2018, her wealth multiplied within days, thanks to the surge in her company’s shares. It is said that she made $2 billion within some weeks. The achievement ranked her as the top fourth billionaire of the year.

Yang is also the head of a well-known Chinese training and development company, Bright Scholar Education Holdings.  Her father was a self-made estate agent. He did not have money to pay his university expenses. He worked hard to make his name in the property business. Today, his family enjoys what their father left for them.