As Winston Churchill worked to form the United Nations after WWII, he said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste”. This has been Antoine Assi’s motto and business model, Managing Partner of ESTIA Real Estate Group. Assi predicted the crisis in Lebanon three years before it happened. At the time, a similar hurricane of crises was afflicting Greece. Assi decided to capitalize on the Greek crisis, and expanded his real estate business, where he eventually benefited from the sharp drop in real estate prices. Assi sold over 2,000 apartments, developed over 20 hotels, and manages over 500 million euros in property. In this interview, Executive sits down with Assi, to get a better sense of his experiences and successes as a dominating figure amongst the Lebanese diaspora. Can you tell us about ESTIA as a company and what kinds of services it offers? ESTIA is a real estate development
