Billionaire Blackstone boss Steve Schwarzman hits surprising bump in developing $100M country estate
One of Wall Street’s giants, Blackstone’s Steve Schwarzman, may have finally found the equivalent of that tiniest of creatures: the English red newt. The private equity boss is looking to renovate a rundown 2,500-acre country estate in Wiltshire, southern England, which he bought in 2022 for $100 million. But Britain’s notoriously strict town planning laws […]