Title Insurance companies are under attack by governmental officials. Few other real estate businesses suffer the unjustified, frequent assaults by government officials like the title insurance profession. The difficulty in understanding their function and underestimating their necessity for the safe transfer of real estate requires real estate practitioner’s to raise their pens to protect our Full Article…
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Rent Law of 2015: Deregulation, decontrol, renewals and you (Part II)
Preferential Rents Now Decrease Vacancy Increases Under the Rent Law of 2015, the law irrefutably assumes that a preferential rent is not based on some special relationship with the tenant but is a genuine statement of what the market will bear. Since rent stabilization is supposed to prevent tenants paying above market rents, the logic Full Article…
Setting the Law Straight on Terminating Easements
At the present time, finding real estate property to buy has been compared to finding the Loch Ness Monster or Bigfoot. Buyers of land have become more creative and aggressive than ever before in trying to develop property for an anxious public. This search has resulted in a demand to discover options to remove restrictions Full Article…
Preferential Rents Now Decrease Vacancy Increases
Under the Rent Law of 2015, the law irrefutably assumes that a preferential rent is not based on some special relationship with the tenant but is a genuine statement of what the market will bear. Since rent stabilization is supposed to prevent tenants from paying above-market rents, the logic of the situation that the Legislature Full Article…
Application of the Adverse Possession Amendments
By Adam Leitman Bailey and John M. Desiderio June 10, 2015 In 2008, the New York Legislature enacted sweeping changes to Article 5 of the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (RPAPL) that governs the circumstances under which title to real property may be acquired by adverse possession. The legislation was intended to overturn the Full Article…
A Practitioner’s Guide to Litigating Party Walls
New York Law Journal By: Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman April 8th, 2015 One developer-client once told us, “horse racing is not the sport of kings—litigation is.” During the greatest high end real estate market in the history of our country, the ultra wealthy or the corporate kings have battled in our courts for Full Article…
Principal Of A Sponsor May Be Held Separately Liable Where It Executes The Certification
New York Law Journal March 18th, 2015 By Scott E. Mollen Condominiums—Alleged Construction Defects -Since Sponsor Made Repeated Repairs, There Was A Triable Issue of Fact As to Whether and to What Extent Sponsor Waived the Offering Plan’s Written Notice Requirement A CONDOMINIUM Board of Managers (board) commenced an action against a sponsor-developer (sponsor) of Full Article…
A Lender’s Duty To Investigate Its Borrower
By: Adam Leitman Bailey & John M. Desiderio Adam Leitman Bailey is the founding partner of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C., in New York, New York. John M. Desiderio is a partner in the New York, New York, office of Adam Leitman Bailey, P.C. ……………….. Until recently, a mortgage lender preparing to give a loan needed Full Article…