Real Estate Law

EGS Commercial Real Estate conducts 156 deals around Birmingham – Everything Alabama Blog

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Birmingham’s EGS Commercial Real Estate conducted 156 transactions through the … a lease of 17,819 square feet at Ridge Park Place for law firm Dominick Feld Hyde P.C. and the purchase of 59 acres in Shelby West … Continue reading

Reagor: Home-listing group game for some fun – AZCentral.com

players are sent to “rules class,” which is a real option for metro Phoenix’s real-estate agents who don’t follow industry guidelines or laws. Instead of the wild cards in the regular Monopoly known as Chance and Treasure Chest, this game … Continue reading

Commercial Real Estate Transactions – Part II – jdsupra.com

Introducing a short series of papers by Schecter Law setting forth simplified answers to common questions regarding commercial real estate transactions. The Q&A is also available on video as Schecter Law is a featured real estate law firm on Law.TV … Continue reading

IDS Center price depends on credit of law firms – The Business Journal

Inland American Real Estate Trust has nearly $300 million already invested in Minneapolis’ IDS Center. Whether or not it can get a price close to that figure depends significantly on how buyers view the credit-worthiness of the law firms on … Continue reading

District attorney’s real estate fraud unit a model for other counties – vcstar.com

“Real estate fraud in one form or the other has probably always … which the governor has signed into law. The new law allows counties to raise fees on certain recorded documents from $3 to $10. “The potential new revenue from this … Continue reading

Spain Crisis: Banks to Dump Real Estate – Live Trading News

The government has demanded banks write down losses of more than 80-B Euros on around 184-B Euros of repossessed property and bad loans to developers, as well as sound real estate assets, through two laws passed before the country sought … Continue reading

Real Estate Co. Buys Famed Houston Buildings In Fire Sale – site.law360.com

Law360, New York (July 18, 2012, 7:55 PM ET) — Commercial real estate firm Cameron Management on Friday became the new owner — for a second time — of two historic buildings located in downtown Houston after scooping up the … Continue reading

In the JPMorgan scandal, a rush to hire lawyers – Reuters UK

Legal experts say that in the early stage of an investigation it not uncommon for individuals with Wall Street firms to retain lawyers even if they are not viewed as potential suspects by law enforcement. In an announcement on July … Continue reading

Tree cutting law – Boston Globe

In a tragic case out of Somerset got me thinking about our tree cutting laws. As reported by Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, a woman’s estate has recovered a $150,000 wrongful death settlement after she dropped dead when her neighbor cut down … Continue reading

Council take possession of deceased estate – au.news.yahoo.com

A piece of the Ferguson Valley’s prime real estate could be coming up for grabs because of a quirk in local government laws. The Dardanup Shire Council will auction a 2675sq m block on Wellington Mills Road in coming months … Continue reading