May 28, 2012
Warehouse ordered to load out 500 tons of certified robusta...

The Competition Council of Belgium has ordered Port Real Estate, a warehouse operator at Antwerp port, to maintain a minimum volume for loading out certified robusta coffee. The order is...

April 29, 2012
Real estate investor to serve one year in prison for...

Steven J. Cox, a Mobile, Alabama real estate investor, has agreed to plead guilty for his role in a bid-rigging conspiracy at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Alabama. The...

April 26, 2012
CoStar and LoopNet asked to sell interest in Xceligent for...

The Federal Trade Commission has proposed a settlement to resolve its competition concerns with CoStar Group’s $860 million acquisition of LoopNet. CoStar is the nation’s largest provider of information/marketing services...

April 26, 2012
Guilty plea count up to 22 in DOJ bid-rigging probe...

California real estate investors Lydia Fong and Matthew Worthing have pleaded guilty to bid-rigging at public real estate foreclosure auctions in northern California. From October 2009 to January 2011, Fong...

April 23, 2012
Alabama real estate investor to serve time for bid-rigging

Lawrence B. Stacy, an Alabama real estate investor has agreed to plead guilty to his role in a bid-rigging conspiracy at public real estate foreclosure auctions in southern Alabama, from...

April 01, 2012
Revised Commerzbank restructuring plan approved because Eurohypo cannot be divested

The European Commission has approved a modification to Commerzbank’s restructuring plan. The original plan was approved by the Commission in 2009. It called for the divestment of Eurohypo, Commerzbank’s largest...

March 26, 2012
CCI sees influx of real estate complaints following DLF penalty

The Business Standard reports that there has been a recent influx of complaints lodged against real estate players at the Competition Commission of India. Complainants are encouraged by the DLF...

March 08, 2012
NMa tells Funda.nl to end preferential treatment of NVM members...

The NMa has told housing website Funda.nl to treat all real estate agents equally. Funda.nl had been giving priority to members of NVM, a Dutch real estate association, by placing...

February 26, 2012
Tenth real estate investor pleads guilty to bid-rigging at CA...

Wiley C. Chandler, a real estate investor, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Sacramento for his role in rigging bids at public real estate foreclosure auctions in San...