Real Property

The term “real estate” generally refers to ownership or use of land. The Real Property section of FindLaw’s Corporate Counsel Center provides information on matters such as asset protection during a lawsuit, security interests in investment properties, and information on the historical tension between two competing forces: the need for new housing as the population grows, and the scarcity of adequate water supplies in many of the places where new communities are emerging. Understanding general real estate issues facing your business is of great importance for corporate counsel, regardless of the company’s specific industry. Read more about these and other subjects under Business Operations.

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Real Property Articles

Guarantor Rights in Surprising Places

It is worth remembering that a "guarantor" includes someone who grants a lien on his or her property to secure the principal's debt even if the granting party is not personally liable for payment of the obligation. The plaintiff in Mead v. Sanwa ...
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H-1Bs at a Glance

Temporary: H-1Bs are temporary foreign professionals hired by a U.S. employer. Highly skilled: H-1Bs can be hired only for "specialty occupations," those jobs requiring the equivalent of at least a bachelor's degree in the field ...
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Have Lawmakers Found A Cure For Sprawl?

Commercial development in the Philadelphia suburbs is on fire, and residential development continues unabated. "Antisprawl" legislation and "smart growth" are the catchphrases for land-use planning to address growing pains faced by many ...
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Hawaiian Hospitality

A combination of factors, including a resurgent tourist market and the possibility of "fire-sale" prices substantially below replacement cost, has created a great deal of investor interest in the Hawaiian hotel market. Many potential investors ...
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Health Industry Alert: March 3, 2000

Physicians sometimes lease office space to other suppliers of health care items or services to whom the physicians refer patients. In light of a Special Fraud Alert issued by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) on February 23, 2000, caution ...
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How not to go Dark at a Shopping Center: Advice for Tenants (and Hope for Landlords)

Landlords and major retail tenants frequently argue about including "continuous operations" provisions in their leases. These provisions make it an affirmative obligation of the tenant to stay open for business, subject to whatever limitations are ...
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How to Buy a HUD Home

When someone with a HUD insured mortgage can't meet the payments, the lender forecloses on the home; HUD pays the lender what is owed; and HUD takes ownership of the home. Then we sell it at market value as quickly as possible. Anyone! If you ...
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Hurdles to Development in San Francisco

What a difference a year makes. The reclassification of dot-coms from "business service" to office use, combined with the economic downturn affecting the Bay Area, has had a huge impact on commercial space in San Francisco. Hundreds of thousands of ...
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Hurricane Insurance Claim Advisory: Has Your Home Been Condemned?

You'd think government would help homeowners after the hurricane. Not so for many shocked North Topsail Beach property owners. They learned that the State of North Carolina Coastal Area Management Agency (CMA) moved the vegetation lines inland. The ...
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Information About Your Closing

Welcome to the family of clients who have retained our office to represent them in real estate transactions. This memo is designed to answer some of the most commonly asked questions about the procedure involved in buying and selling real property ...
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