A Chicago real estate developer was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison for participating in a conspiracy that embezzled millions of dollars from the failed Washington Federal Bank for Savings. Washington Federal was based in Chicago’s Bridgeport...
Mark Skender, former CEO of Chicago-based Skender Construction, passed away on April 18 at the age of 61. Skender was born Dec. 3, 1963, and earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and an MBA from...
A Chicago real estate broker was sentenced to four years and two months in federal prison for defrauding four investors out of more than $3 million. Stanislav Sannikov, also known as Steve Sannikov, owned and operated Chestnut Realty Group. According to the charges...
Robert M. Sawyer, a prominent real estate developer and educator, passed away on April 4 at his home on Martha’s Vineyard at the age of 87. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1937, he graduated from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and relocated to...
An unlikely speaker at a real estate conference, an unlikely subject for a new museum and unlikely behavior by a mortgage industry CEO. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the Week of March 31-April 4. Miss: A Blunder Down...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
