A California real estate developer is facing charges from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for defrauding hundreds of investors. According to the nine-count DOJ indictment, Kenneth W. Mattson was the president of...
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged New York City-based Unicoin Inc., a cryptocurrency company, with making false and misleading statements in an offering of certificates that purportedly conveyed rights to receive crypto assets called Unicoin...
Pacaso, the San Francisco-headquartered marketplace for co-owned luxury vacation homes, announced it has reserved the ticker symbol “PCSO” on the Nasdaq Stock Market. According to the company, reserving the ticker symbol does not guarantee a future listing...
A pair of new real estate-focused book have been released, one highlighting Section 1031 Exchanges and the other offering strategies for selling commercial properties. Louis J. Rogers, founder and co-CEO of Capital Square, has authored the new “Section 1031 Exchanges:...
Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz, the CEO of the commercial real estate investment firm Nightingale Properties, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for conducting a fraud scheme that siphoned $62.8 million from more than 800 investors. Schwartz solicited investments through...
Paramount Group Inc. (NYSE: PGRE), a real estate investment trust focused on New York City and San Francisco office properties, announced that its board of directors has begun a review of what it described as “a review and evaluation of strategic alternatives to...
