Equity Residential

Lobbying client

Equity Residential is a publicly traded apartment real estate investment trust (NYSE: EQR), headquartered in Chicago and founded in 1993 by Sam Zell and Robert Lurie, that owns and operates 312 rental properties with about 85,500 apartments in major U.S. cities, including roughly 30 properties across Manhattan neighborhoods. It has filed 15 disclosures since 2024, registered citywide, paying The Parkside Group $230,000 to lobby all 51 council members on state real estate and business issues.

Council members lobbied
51 (citywide)
Filings (since 2024)
15
Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
$240,000

Represented by lobbyist firms

What they lobbied on

subjects from their filings

Sources