Inland American Real Estate Trust Inc., the largest nontraded real estate investment trust, (also known as nontraded REITs), worth $10.8 billion, reported on March 13, 2013, that some of their investors are alleging the REIT's management failed in its fiduciary responsibility, resulting in false valuations and excess fees being paid to the REIT's business manager. […]

Securities Lawyer, Lars Soreide, of Soreide Law Group, is currently investigating Gramercy Securities, Inc. This brokerage has been alleged to have placed unsophisticated investors' money into unsuitable investments. There have been claims, for example, of a recent widow losing her entire net worth by investing in risky private placements. Some of these risky private placements […]

Today, in a Wall Street Journal article, Craig Karmin writes that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), is currently investigating an $11 billion real-estate company for potential violations of federal securities laws, looking at the business of real estate investment trusts that aren't traded on exchanges. They are looking at the activity of Inland American Real Estate Trust to […]