May
01
You Can Buy a Santa Fe Estate for $10 Million Less Than It’s Worth
ByThe owners of Santa Fe’s “Opera House” bought it for $3.5 million, then put a further $18 million into restorations.
Robert Knutson, a founder and the retired chairman and chief executive officer of the Education Management Corp., took his company public in 1996. A decade later, it was acquired for $3.4 billion by a consortium of private equity firms led by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. In 2009, the company went public again, this time with a valuation of about $2 billion. (It’s since been reacquired. A 2010 Bloomberg article reported that Knutson had made $132.4 million in stock sales from his company.)…
You Can Buy a Santa Fe Estate for $10 Million Less Than It’s Worth
