Sharon Wapnick
About
Sharon Wapnick is a lawyer and property investor who chairs the JSE-listed real-estate group Octodec Investments and is closely associated with the family-founded City Property Administration and APT/Premium Properties lineage. The Wapnick family built its fortune assembling and managing large portfolios of commercial, retail and residential buildings, particularly in the central business districts of Johannesburg and Pretoria, where the group is one of the most significant landlords. A practising attorney as well as a businesswoman, Wapnick took a leading role in the family's property interests and their listed vehicles, overseeing portfolios spanning offices, shops and inner-city residential accommodation. Her wealth is held through these listed and associated property interests. She is one of relatively few women at the head of a major South African property group, and her fortune tracks the value of the underlying real-estate portfolios and their listed holding companies.
Source of wealth
Controls a substantial property portfolio through the JSE-listed groups Octodec Investments and City Property, built up by the Wapnick family. Her wealth comes from these commercial and residential real-estate interests, concentrated in inner-city Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Disclosed holdings
Listed (JSE): Family interests in JSE-listed property groups including Octodec Investments and associated City Property / Premium Properties structures.
Private: Family property-management interests (City Property Administration) and associated real-estate holdings.
How we estimate this
Estimated primarily from the current JSE value of the property-group shareholdings, valued at the latest share prices. See our full methodology.
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