Amancio Ortega, the founder of Zara and controlling shareholder of fashion giant Inditex, has become the world's biggest individual real estate investor, with Forbes valuing his property holdings at $25 billion (€21.2 billion) spread across more than 200 properties in 13 countries. Ortega, who turned 90 this year, has steadily reinvested the dividends from his 60% stake in Inditex into prime commercial real estate, accumulating trophy assets such as Toronto's Royal Bank Plaza, Amazon's Vancouver headquarters, and Madrid's Torre Picasso. In recent years he has expanded beyond offices and retail into logistics warehouses and upscale residential rentals, while his investment vehicle Pontegadea has also taken minority stakes in energy, telecoms, parking, and port infrastructure firms across OECD countries.