CORUS Bankshares News

JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and other bank behemoths have bulked up over the past year.

Robert Cooper says he has found a way to make money in South Floridaa s real estate bust.

MAC Inc., the lender that received two U.S. bailouts, has attracted $2.9 billion of new deposits and riled its rivals by offering the highest interest rates and running advertisements that portray bankers as deceptive.

A group led by Starwood Capital LLC and TPG beat out seven other bidders to buy the assets of failed lender Corus Bankshares Inc .

Starwood Capital Group LLC and TPGa s agreement to buy $4.5 billion of Corus Bankshares Inc.

Starwood Capital Group LLC and TPG's agreement to buy $4.5 billion of Corus Bankshares Inc.'s real estate assets shows investors are ready to bet on distressed property -- as long as the U.S. helps finance the deals.

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Investors led by Starwood Capital Group LLC and TPG won an auction for the real estate assets of failed Chicago lender Corus Bankshares Inc .

A group led by Starwood Capital Group LLC won the bidding for the assets of Corus Bankshares Inc., the Chicago lender seized by regulators after its portfolio of construction loans soured, according to people familiar with the decision.

A group of investors led by private-equity firm Starwood Capital Group is the likely winner of an auction for Corus Bankshares Inc.'s /quotes/comstock/11i!cors /quotes/nls/cors assets, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday on its Web site, citing unidentified sources familiar with the matter.

U.S. stock futures on Monday weakened amid concerns about the prospect of a trade war on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.

Corus Bankshares, the Chicago-based bank that helped back Concerto, Solair, Evo, and other recently completed LA projects, was taken over by the FDIC last week .

We don't have a position in MB Financial , but the company is getting such a good deal in its acquisition of the branches of the just-seized Corus Bankshares that I can't help but make a comment.

Following the failure of Chicago's Corus Bankshares and its seizure by federal regulators, speculation this week focused on the fate of the lender's $4 billion in commercial loans, a good quarter of them secured by condominium projects in South Florida.

The NASDAQ Stock Market announced today that the trading halt status in Corus Bankshares, Inc.

THE 17-room home next door to US President Barack Obama 's Chicago house has been put up for sale.

MB Financial Inc., which has shown a willingness to buy failed banks, has bought the branches and deposits of Chicago-based Corus Bankshares Inc., the condominium lender seized Friday by banking regulators.

Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross has won permission to form a bank that may help him bid for assets of troubled condo lender Corus Bankshares, which was seized by federal regulators Friday, according to recently released documents.

Federal authorities Friday shuttered Chicago-based Corus Bank, making it the biggest financial institution in the area to succumb to the financial crisis.

Related Cos. managers including Chief Executive Stephen Ross got the go-ahead to charter a bank, a move that may help them bid for Corus Bankshares Inc.