A Missouri man has pleaded not guilty to two separate indictments of conspiring to steal or try to steal 16 homes and a duplex with bogus deeds. James L. Townes Jr. of the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley was indicted by a grand jury on June 25 with one count of mail...
A former New York Police Department (NYPD) detective was among three individuals arrested for a deed theft scheme in the Bronx, New York. The retired detective, Chenenne Guevarra-Francis, teamed with his mother Barbara Guevarra-Francis, a retired nurse, and attorney...
The too-high cost for homebuying, the effects of plumbing mishaps on household budgets, and an XL-sized lease in New York City’s office market. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of April 28-May 2. Miss: A Dent to...
A Nebraska woman who was granted parole after serving a prison term for deed theft was arrested for repeating the crime that put her behind bars – with the same property from her first arrest! KNEB reports Londa Neal and her then-husband Barry ran afoul of the law in...
The Register of Deeds in North Carolina’s Wake County, which became the center of national attention last summer in a high-profile case of deed theft, has unveiled a new land-use records platform with a fraud alert system designed to prevent a repeat of that notorious...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
