Allen Tate, Charlotte real estate titan, has died

H. Allen Tate Jr., the founder, chairman and CEO of real estate firm Allen Tate Co. and a prominent leader in the Charlotte business community, has died at age 84.

The company said Monday evening that Tate died at his home in Charlotte, noting that he had been in “failing health for a number of years.” Still, he had continued to work at the residential firm’s SouthPark headquarters.

“This is a great personal loss for me,” Pat Riley, president and chief operating officer of the company and Tate’s…