The Real Estate Fraud Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) Commercial Crimes Division’s arrested Rita Ortiz for filing false mechanical liens on several residential properties. Ortiz filed mechanical liens on property titles for extraordinarily elevated...
A lack of housing policy ideas in the State of the Union, a theater chain weighing closing more locations, and a city losing millions in consulting fees over a failed museum project. From the wild and woolly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the...
A St. Louis-area contractor who fraudulently obtained $1.7 million in pandemic loans was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to repay the money. Coretta “Cory” Elliott owned and operated CMT LLC, a contractor that provided commercial construction,...
Joshua Schuster, a former New York City real estate developer who was indicted last May for conducting a four-year, multimillion-dollar real estate investment scam, is reportedly planning to enter a guilty plea in his case. Hoodline.com reports Schuster is scheduled...
A Florida man was arrested for trying to sell North Carolina farmland that he did not own. Kellie Brian Butler of Orlando forged North Carolina real estate documents – including a “Working with Real Estate Agents Disclosure (For Sellers)” form and an “Exclusive Right...
UWM Says VantageScore 4.0 Improves Results for 1 in 4 Borrowers
