News about properties and real estate
Palmetto subdivision homeowners surprised by blanket lien [South Florida] Real estate push has come to foreclosure shove in Palmetto. Roughly 200 individual property owners are finding themselves in the first step of a foreclosure because of a legal tussle between well-known Palmetto builder deMorgan Communities and the company that did roads, utilities, sewers and drainage …
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Business: A deal not even a mom could love Two years ago, Jason Gabay hired an architect to work on his waterfront home in Belleair. Now his widowed mother is out $500,000. Confused? The sordid tale is laid out in a recent lawsuit. Largo architect Steve Spencer began drafting designs in 2005, Gabay alleges. Shortly …
The Second Battle of Bushwick [New York] From the top of the spanking new steel-and-glass 14-story condo tower now open for inspection on Grove Street just off of Myrtle Avenue, you can see most of Bushwick—the landmarks of the neighborhood that was, and the one that’s fast being remade, the sites of the bad old …
Judge flags preacher’s use of donations Testimony in divorce court about the tangled finances of controversial preacher Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda has prompted a judge to alert the feds about his ministry’s operations. The Miami-based preacher who has basked in international attention since declaring himself the second coming of Jesus Christ has used charitable …
Owners don’t see paying taxes as a priority Charlotte, Manatee and Sarasota counties saw a sharp spike in the number of landowners failing to pay their property taxes this year, another sign of a sagging real estate market and struggling economy. The number of parcels with delinquent taxes soared more than 70 percent in Sarasota …
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Developer’s record marred by missteps [South Florida] The developer who promised a biotech park in Liberty City has a record of foreclosures, defaulted loans and a bankruptcy. Dennis Stackhouse stood before the Miami-Dade County Commission, hoisting a map of Kendall Square, the Cambridge, Mass., neighborhood that is widely considered a Silicon Valley of the biotech …
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