A nine-person Texas team that operated a series of fraudulent deed schemes has been hit with a pair of lawsuits filed by Harris County Attorney Abbie Kamin. The lawsuits detailed how the alleged fraudsters forged paperwork to acquire deeds to at least 10 homes and...
A Tennessee woman was sentenced to prison today for filing bogus deeds for residential real estate in North Carolina and other states and misusing the owners’ personal identifying information (PII). Alicia England of Chattanooga was ordered to serve 75 months in...
A New York man who used deed theft to take over two Harlem brownstones with a combined value of $4.7 million was convicted after a seven-week trial. Joseph Makhani was found guilty of two counts of Criminal Possession of Stolen Property in the First Degree and one...
Two people in Ohio who were charged with deed theft on a house owned by a man with dementia accepted a plea deal ahead of their trial. The Journal News reports Terry Anderson and Angela Croley each pleaded guilty on June 5 in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court to...
A broke city gets a new tax, a pesky deed thief is back in custody, and Tampa Bay gets another $1 billion request for a stadium. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of May 25-29. Miss: Ignoring the Root of the...
Small Mortgages Fall Below 3% of Originations, Exposing Rural Lending Gap
