Montgomery Realty Renegotiating Land Sale

Dinesh Maniar’s big break fell through, but it just might be a good thing.

Maniar owns 96% of the stock of Montgomery Realty Group Inc., a real estate holding company that doesn’t hold much real estate and trades, but not often, on the over-the-counter bulletin board. To boot, he owns 100 percent of Diversified Investment & Management Corp., which handles all of Montgomery’s property management and brokerage activities.

His big break came in May, when Sand Hill Property Company, owned by local developer Peter Pau, signed on to pay Montgomery $14.5 million for a piece of land in South San Francisco already approved for a 200,000-sf office building. With the so-called Eccles Project land on Montgomery’s books for $500,000, Montgomery stood to make a $12 million profit after paying off a $1.9 million mortgage on the property.