The largest hotel in Oakland is bound for a foreclosure auction later this month. The Oakland Marriott City Center is scheduled to be sold in a foreclosure auction on June 24. The San Francisco Business Times reports Hong Kong-based Gaw Capital Partners, the hotel’s...
Madison, Wisconsin-based Fairway Independent Mortgage Corp. announced its acquisition of Hallmark Home Mortgage. The acquired company will become Hallmark Home Mortgage, Powered by Fairway, and will be a new division of Fairway. Fairway CEO and founder Steve Jacobson...
Another strategy for lowering Ohio’s property taxes has been brought forth with a new bill that would give counties the ability to lower property taxes if the amount collected is more than needed. WCMH reports House Bill 309, introduced by David Thomas (R-Jefferson),...
The former president of a Pennsylvania title company has pleaded guilty for defrauding a title insurance underwriter, clients and the federal government. According to the charges brought against him, Louis Belletieri was the president of Allentown-based Security...
A federal judge in Chicago has rejected a request by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to vacate its $105,000 settlement of redlining charges brought against the mortgage lender Townstone Financial. The settlement followed a protracted litigation that...
The private equity real estate firm Henderson Park, working in partnership with the real estate developer and investor Lowe, has commenced work on the office-to-residential conversion of 1250 Maryland Avenue SW in Washington, DC. Currently known as Portals I, the...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of June 22-26
