Top Real Estate Development Companies By Market Capitalization
The top companies by market capitalization in the real estate development industry, as of 29 April 2009, are given below.
| Company | Exchange | Ticker | Cap ($) |
| DLF Universal | BSE | DLF | 2.24B |
| Inversiones y Representaciones Sociedad Anónima (IRSA) | NYSE | IRS | 226M |
| Consolidated-Tomoka Land | AMEX | CTO | 199M |
| AMREP | NYSE | AXR | 108M |
| Stratus Properties | NASDAQ | STRS | 74M |
| Bluegreen | NYSE | BXG | 67M |
| ZipRealty | NASDAQ | ZIPR | 56M |
For historic comparison, by 1963, at the time of going public on the American Stock Exchange, one of Louis Lesser's companies, Louis Lesser Enterprises, Inc., had developed $3,795,652,174 (adjusted for inflation) worth of real estate in California, Colorado, Nevada, Washington, Arizona, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Hawaii, which does not include his international development, nor development by his other companies and partnerships.
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