
Sam Lounsberry
Chicago Bureau Chief at The Real Deal
News enthusiast. NBA-obsessed. @ColoradoStateU J-school. Journalist @trdny. Past stops: @nwherald, @dailycamera, @timescall, @reporterherald. Read your local 📰
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1 week ago |
therealdeal.com | Sam Lounsberry
Chicago landlord Michael N. Lerner has a new opponent in court after settling multiple contentious lawsuits with his parents. Fannie Mae is now coming after Lerner, who is called Nathan by his parents. His father is Michael J.
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1 week ago |
therealdeal.com | Sam Lounsberry
Lender lawsuits and the listing of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home brought more attention to Chicago’s South Side and southern suburbs this week. Chicago-based Renovo Financial originated at least 80 loans to single-family home rehabbers Chris and Aneta Urban that have all fallen into foreclosure. The siblings’ deals have thrust $14 million in mortgage debt into distress, and the borrowers took on millions more in debt from individual lenders now at risk of getting wiped out at foreclosure auctions.
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2 weeks ago |
therealdeal.com | Sam Lounsberry
Senior housing landlord 3 Diamond Development is on the verge of losing a suburban Chicago affordable housing complex to its lender. The Lincolnwood-based developer and landlord — which claims to operate a sizable portfolio of Illinois and Iowa multifamily properties mostly reserved for residents 62 and older — is facing a $21.1 million foreclosure lawsuit from Green Bay, Wisconsin-based lender Associated Bank.
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2 weeks ago |
therealdeal.com | Kelli Duncan |Sam Lounsberry |Adam Farence
Andrew Holmes congratulated South Side single-family investor Chris Urban on completing his 75th real estate deal in 2022, calling it a “huge accomplishment” and posting a video tour of the home, and Chris joked about losing count of how many properties he had rehabilitated. About two years later, Holmes was warning fellow Chicago investors about Chris, who he accused of running a Ponzi-like scheme that required taking out loans from individuals to pay off other troubled single-family home debts.
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3 weeks ago |
therealdeal.com | Sam Lounsberry
Jim Letchinger is holding open the door for Jamie Dimon to exit the troubled Lincoln Yards megadevelopment on Chicago’s North Side. Letchinger’s Chicago-based firm, with financial backing from investment firm Kayne Anderson, is in negotiations to buy the entire 53-acre site of the proposed $6 billion plan on either side of the Chicago River between Lincoln Park and Bucktown, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
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