Neumann in Chapter 11
October 22, 2007
The crash in the Chicago-area market for new homes has claimed its biggest casualty. Suburban builder Neumann Homes Inc. said Monday it will file for bankruptcy and has laid off most of its employees.
Warrenville-based Neumann blamed its predicament on a drop of more than 50 percent in annual sales within the Chicago and Denver markets. It also pointed to a decision in 2005 to invest in the Detroit market, a move it said cost the company more than $60 million.
To say that I’m a bit upset is a bit of an understatement.
Corresponding articles at Chicago Tribune, WBBM News Radio, Chicago Daily Herald, Crain’s Chicago Business News and a second article at Crain’s Chicago Business News.
For those of you that don’t know chapter 11 bankruptcy is a restructuring of the company.
October 31st, 2007 at 7:17 am
[...] the last episode of this saga, we learned that Neumann Homes is planning to file Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As of yesterday, Tuesday October 30th, Neumann Homes had not filed. No one has been able to [...]
December 28th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
According to the website http://www.chapter11library.com and their blog http://www.chapter11blog.com, the company finally pulled the trigger and filed earlier this fall.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
I actually bought the documents from that site and it took me like two seconds to obtain the Petition for the Neumann Homes chapter 11 filing along with a few others my company was interested in. Blog stays real up-to-date, great tool, if you’re interested in this type of thing.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
There is also a Yahoo group called NeumannHomesBankruptcy that might be helpful to everyone. Many of the Chicagoland home owners are on there.