Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Monday, October 28th.

Today on Forbes, the Kushner's real estate empire is now worth more than trumps.

In 2018, the Kushner family was at a turning point. One year into

Jared Kushner's tenure as senior advisor at the White House to his father-in-law

Donald Trump, the family's real estate business, Kushner Companies, was

facing battles on multiple fronts. Rumors swirled about possible investigations

into influence from Chinese and Qatari investors,

which the firm strenuously denied.

In its home state of New Jersey,

its high-profile luxury apartment development

in Journal Square was stalled,

with a company filing a lawsuit against Jersey City and its mayor,

alleging that they were putting the project in default due to quote political animus.

The greatest immediate threat lay in Manhattan where it faced a looming

wall of debt, $1.2 billion coming due by February 2019 on its marquee asset, a 50.5% stake in 666 Fifth Avenue, a 41-story

office tower in Midtown. Six years later, the Cushners have turned things around.

One of two 64-story towers at the Jersey City complex

topped out this summer.

A 30-story 420 unit apartment tower in the heart of Miami, their second development in Florida,

was completed in early October. A few days later, Open AI leased more than half of the office

space at their historic P puck building in Lower Manhattan.

The Chat GPT Maker will pay $140 per square foot, a massive jump from the $31 paid by the previous

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