Lehman Lives to Pay 18 Cents on Dollar With New Sales: Mortgages
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Hawaiian-condo investors, homebuyers in Montana and travelers seeking a room at Miami Beach’s upscale Setai Hotel all can turn to one company to meet their needs: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
Four years after filing the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history amid soured real estate bets, Lehman is still in the property business, wagering it can recover about $12.9 billion from mortgages and assets around the globe. Its $3 billion purchase this year of the remaining 53 percent of apartment owner Archstone Inc. made it the biggest buyer of U.S. commercial property by value in the last 12 months, according to research firm Real Capital Analytics Inc.