Articles in Channel: Real Estate & Construction Law

Fannie Mae Announces Temporary Halt Of Foreclosure Sales and Evictions

Loura K. Sanchez
November 21, 2008 16:11

Freddie Mac has ordered its national network of mortgage servicers and foreclosure attorneys to suspend all foreclosure sales and evictions involving occupied single family and 2-4 unit properties with Freddie Mac-owned mortgages between November 26, 2008 and January 9, 2009. This suspension will...

Stark & Stark Attorney Featured on Legally Speaking

Stark & Stark
November 21, 2008 13:34

Michael J. Fekete, member of Stark & Stark's Business & Corporate group, was a featured guest on the Camden County Bar Foundation's weekly television talk show Legally Speaking on Sunday November 9, 2009. Mr. Fekete discussed the New Jersey Home Improvement Law,  the Consumer Fraud Act...

New Louisiana Regulation Creates Safe Harbor For Certain Equity-Based Compensatory Plans of Privately-Held Companies

Alan J. Berteau
November 21, 2008 13:02

by Dean P. Cazenave Offers and sales of “securities” must be registered unless there is an applicable exemption from the federal and state securities laws. The most commonly known exemption is the private placement exemption set forth in Regulation D promulgated by the Securities and...

Bulldozed- A must read

Alan Ackerman
November 20, 2008 23:18

The Facts The ULTIMATE.  Carla Main, an investigative reporter, wrote a riveting book about the abuse of eminent domain power in Freeport, Texas.  Any reasoanble reader would find nothing defamatory as to any individual. The book, Bulldozed, dealt with the Texas oil baron who came back...

Bulldozed- A must read

Alan Ackerman
November 20, 2008 23:18

The Facts The ULTIMATE.  Carla Main, an investigative reporter, wrote a riveting book about the abuse of eminent domain power in Freeport, Texas.  Any reasoanble reader would find nothing defamatory as to any individual. The book, Bulldozed, dealt with the Texas oil baron who came back...

Hotel Lawyer: The "Great De-leveraging," a "financial panic" and unprecedented opportunities coming our way. Do you see them? Are you ready?

Jim Butler
November 20, 2008 23:01

Hospitality Lawyer with updated thoughts from the latest commercial real estate finance program in San Francisco. Many of my friends in the hotel industry are in denial. Others are consumed with the daily drama of the unfolding financial panic. I am excited that we are about to see some of the...

Development Buffers under the Endangered Species Act?

Clayton Graham
November 20, 2008 18:25

  A consultation under the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) could potentially impact development on property near shorelines in Washington State. In response to a consultation by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) issued a...

Guaranty Title & Trust Company bids Adieu

November 20, 2008 17:31

Title Insurance companies are licensed and regulated by each state the they are authorized to transact business in. In Illinois, that duty falls to the Department of Financial & Professional Regulation. On November 7, IDFPR announced the death of one of those companies, Guaranty Title &...

Title Insurance Company Woes Continue

November 20, 2008 17:14

Most Chicago area home closings take place at a title insurance company's office. Just setting foot into those offices these days tells you all you need to know about the current state of the Real Estate business: Still open, ready and willing to do business, but it's just not happening. Most are...

Almighty Tax Lien Loses Battle to Environmental Escrow in Condemnation Action

Timothy P. Duggan
November 20, 2008 13:05

Recently, the Appellate Division of the Superior Court of New Jersey was required to determine whether the holders of  tax sale certificates for unpaid real estate taxes were entitled to be paid from the proceeds of a condemnation award when the estimated environmental clean-up costs exceed...