Real Estate Law

Foreclosures have all but ground to a halt in Nevada, which passed one of the stiffest borrower-protection laws in the country last year. Yet the housing market is further than ever from recovery, local real estate agents say, with a … Continue reading →

Health care real estate investment trusts (REITs) are up significantly in the past year.  That is why sector investors are waiting cautiously for the Supreme Court’s decision on President Obama’s health care law. Analysts say whatever way the decision …

RERA works to create a professional real estate environment governed by clear laws and regulations, according to Al Hashmi. Regulating the real estate brokerage profession aims at clarifying relations between different parties, clients and firms in order …

Under current North Carolina law, brokers can only perform BPOs when they have … dramatically as banks have taken back large portfolios of distressed real estate in recent years. Banks are required to review their holdings every 30 to 60 … Continue reading →

RERA works to create a professional real estate environment governed by clear laws and regulations, according to Al Hashmi. Regulating the real estate brokerage profession aims at clarifying relations between different parties, clients and firms in order …

changes in foreign laws and regulations, including those related to taxation and real estate ownership and operation; and changes in local, state and federal regulatory requirements, including changes in real estate and zoning laws and increases …

Since the commercial real estate market was at its lowest … decision to go ahead even though the building has only one tenant so far, the national law firm Morrison & Foerster, which is leasing 184,000 square feet, about 19 … Continue reading →

Less dramatically, your state’s law governing what happens to your assets if you die without a will may differ from what you’d want done. In most states parents share the estate with a surviving, childless spouse; in some, siblings and … Continue reading →

Real estate transfer taxes are an excise tax paid to record a … Mae and Freddie Mac’s status as “exempt” from taxation because, according to state law, the transfer of properties in foreclosure or those involving a governmental body are … Continue reading →

Texas real estate and construction lawyers say they are expecting a rise in public-private partnership developments. Why the demand for public-private partnerships? Because the Texas Legislature passed a bill that clearly defines those agreements.