Lender alleges Chetrit Group not paying rent at HQ, endangering loan

July 11, 2025 / no comments

The building housing Chetrit Group’s headquarters is in hot water.  Developers Meyer Chetrit, Joseph Moinian and Edward Minskoff are now facing potential foreclosure of their leasehold at three office buildings at 500-512 Seventh Avenue in the Garment District. Among the allegations: the partnership didn’t collect rent from Chetrit Group and let electricity bills pile up […]

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New Jersey real estate influencer faces federal fraud charges

July 11, 2025 / no comments

A New Jersey real estate investor who built a social media following through property seminars faces federal charges for allegedly defrauding investors of millions in a Ponzi-like scheme while laundering drug money and bribing a local official. Cesar Pina, who operates under the moniker “Flipping NJ,” was indicted Thursday on charges including wire fraud, money […]

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Nursing Home Operator With 175 Facilities Files For Bankruptcy

July 11, 2025 / no comments

A major nursing home operator that owes money to a pair of REITs has filed for bankruptcy.
Pennsylvania-based Genesis HealthCare owns 175 nursing facilities across the country, but the company said that due to financial hardships in recovering from the pandemic and a rise in litigation, it had to file for bankruptcy, The Wall Street Journal first reported.
The financial hurdles include an $8M-per-month settlement and defense costs over injury and death claims. One instance included the company’s Quinnipiac Valley Center in Connecticut having to be shut down due to safety concerns after the deaths of two residents in 2022.
ReGen Healthcare, another nursing home operator, has entered…

Gary Barnett doubles down at 655 Madison 

July 11, 2025 / no comments

It’s not double or nothing, but Gary Barnett clearly has bigger plans in mind for 655 Madison Avenue. Barnett’s Extell Development filed a rezoning application with the Department of City Planning eyeing a 74-story property at the Midtown Manhattan site, Crain’s reported. That’s double the number of stories Barnett plotted for when he first filed […]

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Milstein heir buys $20M Park Avenue penthouse 

July 11, 2025 / no comments

An office real estate scion has bought into an upper-crust residential building.  Michael Milstein, son of Milstein Properties founder and longtime Emigrant Bank leader Howard Milstein, paid $20 million for a duplex penthouse at 885 Park Avenue with his wife Claudia, according to public records.  Milstein and his father are co-chief executive officers of the […]

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