Week Ending December 24, 2021

Commercial real estate, an industry many feared would suffer broad, lasting distress as a result of the pandemic, fared better in 2021 than just about anyone expected.

I am notarizing documents for a property sale, and the property is in Tennessee. Does Tennessee require a witness when notarizing real estate documents? The signing company has not requested one, and I have not seen the documents yet.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced it increased the maximum of each civil penalty under its jurisdiction, including the section of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) that addresses advance deposits in escrow accounts.

Title Nerds hosts Michael R. O’Donnell and Bethany A. Abele welcome title insurance industry professional Sam Shiel to the podcast for Episode Six. Sam Shiel of Madison Title Agency has a conversation with Mike about his early interest in title insurance and how he got started in the industry, and what is required of a title agent.

Real estate negotiations often involve multiple drafts and rounds of comments on complex documents. Clients become impatient with the process. Perhaps counterintuitively, so do their lawyers. The lawyers have other things to do. And they know that too much legal work on a matter will more likely lead to billing complaints and lost clients than to a huge financial windfall.

A mechanic’s lien is an encumbrance on real property or a leasehold that acts as security for unpaid labor, material, or construction services. Such liens typically are available to contractors on private jobs if they meet certain statutory requirements. In our first installment, we covered the important timing mechanisms for recording liens in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia.

Rebecca and Joseph O’Connor received some staggering news in September days from completing the sale of their Delaware County home: They don’t technically own half of their front yard.

On June 5, 2019, Nicole K. Kapuscinski performed an Internet search for homes for sale and happened upon a century-old country house located on 1.47 acres.

It's the stuff of nightmares: The other day, I found my property occupied by a stranger, who was renting it out, Airbnb style.

The pleas regarding claiming the title on inheritance and title by adverse possession are mutually inconsistent, Justice Gautam Kumar Chowdhary added.The observation was made in a case pertaining to a land dispute over a piece of Raiyati land, where defendants claimed the land both by inheritance and by adverse possession. The plaintiffs on the other hand claimed that they were the true owners of the land considering they have entered into several transactions pertaining to the land in question.

A family-run business for more than 115 years, Idaho-based First American Title Company (not to be confused with First American Title Insurance Company out of California) operates as three subsidiaries — in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming — under the umbrella holding company Title Financial Corp (TFC), which was founded in 2003 as a vehicle for further expansion.

ARDÚ Business Advisors is a niche leadership development and business coaching firm. ARDÚ is an acronym for articulate, refine, develop and unveil. That appeal motivated title company executive Amanda Brumbelow to start a new business

For agents interested in growing their business by expanding into multiple states, we’re here to make the process simple and profitable. We offer you one point of contact to streamline your options and solutions.

Everyone’s got that one thing they do that defies any sensible logic. For Matthew Battley, it’s hiking up Mount Ruapehu — an active volcano on the north island of New Zealand where 80-mile-per-hour winds whip across the summit — to iron a button-down shirt.

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This property and others are being sold by online auction. The price listed above is a placeholder for listing purposes only. Bidding starts at $100, and all properties will be sold to the highest bidder regardless of price. These properties were acquired by the sellers due to delinquent tax sale deed and will be transferred by Quitclaim Deed only using the most recent deed description.

Once valued at $500 million, The One mansion in Bel-Air is being sold for $295 million and will be on the open market until it is auctioned off by Concierge Auctions, an online auction marketplace, from February 28 to March 3.

From picnics to club dinners, the critter has a long culinary history in Pennsylvania.