Ana Walshe was making plans for the future, buying more properties before disappearing: source

COHASSET, Mass. – EXCLUSIVE: Ana Walshe, the Massachusetts real estate boss who has been missing for two weeks, was making plans for the future and selling some of her assets with the intention of reinvesting the proceeds in a property she intended to buy, a well-placed source confirmed to Fox. Digital news.

Walshe, the 39-year-old real estate manager who regularly traveled to Washington, DC for work, had owned an apartment in Revere, Massachusetts, for years before finalizing the sale just days before she went missing. Walshe lived with her family in the south shore town of Cohasset, but she owned investment property, including her apartment in Revere.

Her former Revere tenants previously told Fox News Digital that Walshe’s behavior had changed in recent months, when she suddenly broke the news of the property’s sale and became “aggressive,” unlike the friend one once considered it.

But a source who worked closely with Walshe told Fox News Digital that “the proceeds from the sale of Revere’s condo went directly to the purchase of another investment property, and not to Ana herself.”

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The source, who asked to remain anonymous out of concern for his privacy, spoke after saying that certain reports about Walshe’s recent actions did not “sit well” with them. The source said the funds from the sale of the Revere property were already on escrow when Walshe disappeared earlier this month.

The person told Fox News Digital that the process of selling assets to acquire others “is not unusual in any way.”

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“Not even saying this necessarily specific to Ana and Brian, people who invest in real estate, they change properties all the time,” he continued.

And the source, who had been close and communicated with Walshe in the days and weeks before his disappearance, said Walshe had an “upbeat and magnetic personality.” They said they had not noticed any change in behavior from Walshe in the previous months, adding: “I don’t feel like the Ana I worked with “recently” was any different from the Ana I knew when I first met her… In terms of behavior change, Not from my perspective.”

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Having seen Walshe so recently, the source said the news of his disappearance is “still shocking.”

“It was utter disbelief,” they said. “I thought it was a cruel joke at first.”

Mandi and Mike Silva, Walshe’s tenants who live in Revere’s recently sold apartment, spoke kindly of Walshe but said they’ve noticed a change in his behavior in recent months. They said they signed a contract allowing them to stay inside the basement apartment until May.

When it came time to finalize the sale in late December, Walshe “was insistent,” Mike Silva previously said. The union contractor said Walshe owed him money for building her apartment, and when he confronted her about it, he “blew up.”

“Every year I’ve known Ana, I’ve had disputes with Ana over working on their houses, and she’s never done that,” he said.

He added that he often performed maintenance or construction on other Walshe properties during those years. Mandi Silva said both she and her fiancé had babysat Walshe’s children and spent time inside her home.

“You’re not just my landlord, you’re my friend,” Mandi Silva said, fighting back tears, apparently speaking directly to Walshe. “So if something happened to you, I can’t take back my last discussion with you.”

Walshe, a mother of three young children, was last seen in the early morning hours of January 1, when she was supposed to take a shared ride service to a local airport to board a flight to Washington, DC.

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Tishman Speyer’s real estate manager was scheduled to leave for DC on January 3, but reportedly said there was an emergency that required him to fly there earlier than expected.

A security officer at Tishman Speyer, not her husband, Brian Walshe, first notified police that Walshe was missing on January 4.

In the days between Ana’s disappearance and the missing person’s report, Brian Walshe allegedly lied about his own whereabouts. Investigators said Walshe told investigators that he traveled to stores, such as CVS and Whole Foods, where he actually might not have been.

But he allegedly forgot to mention that he spent about $450 in cash buying cleaning supplies at a Rockland, Massachusetts Home Depot.

According to court documents and officials, Walshe was seen on surveillance video “wearing a black surgical mask, blue surgical gloves and making a cash purchase” of items including mops, duct tape and cloths.

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Investigators also discovered blood and a bloody and damaged knife in the basement of the couple’s home, prosecutors said. They also traced Ana’s cell phone to the area of ​​the family’s Cohasset home on Jan. 1, and approximately 0.7 miles from the home on Jan. 2, according to officials and a police record.

Brian’s cell phone rang in other parts of Massachusetts, including Brockton and Abington, even though he did not have permission to be in the areas under the terms of his home confinement. The convicted art fraudster was under home confinement while he awaited sentencing for selling fake Andy Warhol paintings.

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Officials previously revealed that investigators had recovered even more evidence related to their search for Walshe. They also appeared to have removed, and then replaced, a dumpster taken from the Swampscott home of Brian Walshe’s mother, located nearly 35 miles from the couple’s home.

And a recent CNN report described how Walshe had searched the internet for “how to dispose of a 115 pound woman’s body” and how to dismember a body.

Brian Walshe was arrested on January 8 and charged with misleading a police investigation.

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Police said the charge stems from Walshe’s alleged “intentional, deliberate and direct responses to questions about his whereabouts on Sunday, January 1, 2023, and Monday, January 2, 2023.” Furthermore, they called it “a clear attempt to mislead and delay investigators.”

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He has not been charged with any criminal charges related to his wife’s welfare.