Builder faces $7M foreclosure [South Florida]

Builder faces $7M foreclosure [South Florida] Owner of J&J Homes is in an interest rate dispute over a mortgage on Venice acreage. Sellers are foreclosing on a 141-acre property owned by Jacques Cloutier, the head of one of the region’s oldest and most prolific home builders, J&J Homes. A consortium led by Dr. Robert E. …

Suspect in Yonkers doctor’s slaying had financial setbacks

Suspect in Yonkers doctor’s slaying had financial setbacks The suspect in last week’s killing of Dr. Leandro Lozada had suffered a number of recent financial setbacks, and foreclosure proceedings were filed against him on the same day that he sold the house on Brendon Hill Road where the slaying occurred. Samuel L. Saunders, 59, borrowed …

Refinance an option for sites in foreclosure

Refinance an option for sites in foreclosure A Wichita developer is closing in on a plan to refinance 19 local properties named in a foreclosure lawsuit. Joe Cassell, the attorney for developer Mark Nordyke, said he expects his client to refinance the properties named in a $2 million lawsuit filed in mid-November by Sunflower Bank. …

Failed land deals link Husani and Kolbe circles [South Florida]

Failed land deals link Husani and Kolbe circles [South Florida] It is a coincidence that Neil Mohamed Husani and Todd Kolbe, two of the most prolific real estate deal-makers in Southwest Florida, lived in the gated community of Laurel Oak Country Club in Sarasota. But it is no coincidence that their business and investment circles …