Charities Using Limited Liability Companies to Hold Real Estate
Charities should not use a limited liability company to hold real estate in Massachusetts. Robert E. Cowden wrote an article about this in the November/December …
The personal side of Doug Cornelius
Charities should not use a limited liability company to hold real estate in Massachusetts. Robert E. Cowden wrote an article about this in the November/December …
I ran across two articles on usury and expect we will see more as the debt markets and foreclosures continue to sort themselves out and …
The Law Blog on WSJ.com posted a story on Mark Pettit at the Boston University School of Law: The Minstrel of BU Law School. I …
The MIT Center for Real Estate has just released the results from the third quarter of 2007: Transactions-Based Index (TBI) The results from the quarter …
As Jay Fitzgerald of the Boston Herald reports: Companies may drop home loans The mortgage industry does not like the new mortgage regulations proposed by …
As I have seen the Christmas holiday decorations starting go up already, I thought it appropriate to post about Christmas trees. The case of MacFadyen …
National Real Estate Investor has an article by Beth Mattson–Teig: Why Green Building Has Staying Power. I found it interesting that 84% of corporate users …
When a corporation sells real estate in Massachusetts there is the always the concern of whether there will be a three year, inchoate lien on …
After looking at my post on the Vivisimo Social Search, I thought back to how it relates to each of the four types of search. …
According to the Urban Land Institutes’s Emerging Trends Report it will be A Not So Great 2008, as reported in the National Real Estate Investor. …
Massachusetts is finally jumping on the formatting standard bandwagon. The registries had originally planned to implement the requirement on January 1, 2007. Now the new …
I am at a knowledge management conference today. The personal knowledge management session is focusing on ways to rethink knowledge management. Where are we now? …
Parke Chapman wrote a primer in the National Real Estate Investor on CMBS, CDO and the commercial debt markets. Some highlights: Q: What led to …
With mezzanine financing, there is a potential guarantee liability to the principals of the developer that they may not foresee. The issue arises in a …
In Boston Housing Authority v. Garcia (SJC-09753) (August 17, 2007), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court clarified the position after United States Supreme Court’s ruling in …
Jerry L. Anderson (Drake University Law School) has posted Comparative Perspectives on Property Rights: The Right to Exclude on SSRN. I found it fascinating article …
According to this article in Retail Traffic Magazine, REIT Joint Ventures Unfazed By Credit Market Tumult. I have done a fair amount of work with …
Last week I noted the story and decision of City of Springfield Code Enforcement v. Concerned Citizens for Springfield, Inc., et al. in which Housing …
Ken Adams, author of A Manual of style for Contract Drafting, published this article in The Practical Lawyer: Understanding Best Efforts and Its Variants. I …
I just got back from a weekend in New Orleans and thought I would share my thoughts on this recovering city. You should plan a …