The owner of a defunct Massachusetts real estate brokerage has been indicted for embezzlement. Boston 25 News reports Stephen D. Webster, broker and principal with Success! Real Estate in Marshfield, was accused of detouring more than $11.6 million in client escrow...
Cape Cod considers a mansion tax, Baltimore considers raising taxes on vacant lots, and a retail chain will not consider opening stores in California. From the wild and wooly world of real estate, here are our Hits and Misses for the week of Aug. 18-22. Miss: Soaking...
A pair of Massachusetts-based fraudsters have pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to defraud commercial lenders by providing false rent rolls and forged lease agreements on properties in Massachusetts and Connecticut. According to court documents, Louis R....
A state representative in Massachusetts was arrested for stealing $36,000 from a Cape Cod-based builders trade group. Rep. Christopher Flanagan, a Democrat elected in 2022 from the First Barnstable District, was indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of...
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...
Pending Home Sales Slide to Nearly Three-Year Low as Buyers Pull Back
