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Jonathan M. Pertchik, the former chief restructuring officer for luxury condo developer WCI Communities which built several South Florida towers before seeking bankruptcy protection for a time, will have plenty to discuss as the keynote speaker at tonight's Condo Vultures® seminar. Pertchik has j...
03/23/2010
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A Boca Raton company has paid $39 million for nearly 300,000 square feet of vacant land situated on nine parcels in Downtown Miami, according to a new report from the Condo Vultures® Bulk Deals Database.The newly created PWV Group 1 Holdings LLC, with Gary N. Gerson as registered agent, paid $130...
09/23/2009
Regulators have seized three bank, two headquartered in Florida and one in Oregon, resulting in an estimated loss of $185 million to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.First State Bank, a Sarasota, Fla.-based institution with assets of $463 million and deposits of $387 million, was shuttered on F...
08/11/2009
Federal regulators are staffing up for next month's scheduled opening of what is poised to be a 500-person bank failure and asset sales office in Florida.The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, which insures individual accounts up to $250,000, plans to open a "temporary" east coast office on Jacksonv...
08/07/2009
Individuals planning to attend Tuesday's First-Time Home Buyers Dos and Don'ts seminar are encouraged to register as soon as possible for the free event given the strong response.With the $8,000 first-time home buyers federal tax credit scheduled to expire in November, many purchasers are scrambl...
07/27/2009
A South Florida private equity group purchased 51 new, oceanfront condo-hotel units in the luxury One Bal Harbour complex at $63 per square foot, a discount of 94 percent off of the $1,100 per square foot average recorded sales price, according to a new report from Condo Vultures® LLC.Elcom Condo...
07/26/2009
Federal regulators have seized the South Dakota bank foreclosing on a nearly $12 million oceanfront condo development site in Greater Miami Beach.BankFirst of Sioux Falls, S.D., was shut on Friday, July 17, less than a month after the 14-year-old institution filed to foreclose on a 1.1-acre site ...
07/22/2009
Banks repossessed 16 percent fewer South Florida properties in the second quarter of this year than were seized during the same period a year ago despite an increased number of foreclosure filings in the tricounty region, according to a new report from Condo Vultures® LLC.Lenders repossessed 5,99...
07/17/2009
A $12 million foreclosure action has been launched against an oceanfront development site in Sunny Isles Beach that is to house a proposed 43-story luxury condominium tower featuring only one unit per floor, according to the Condo Vultures® Foreclosure DatabaseTM.BankFirst of Sioux Falls, S.D., f...
07/16/2009
Early estimates in response to dozens of lawsuits have determined that defective Chinese drywall is present in at least two percent of the 20,000 single-family houses developed in Florida between 2006 and 2007 by Miami-based homebuilder Lennar Corp.The number of defective residences may grow even...
07/14/2009