Theres more to owning a home than saving up for a down payment. Just as a house has a frame to support the walls and keep the roof overhead, it also has a legal framework of rights and duties that can keep your dream of property ownership from crashing in on your head. This book is designed to help you understand that legal framework and answer some questions you might have. It can also help you avoid legal problems and work through problems that might arise.

We examine the effects of dual agency, where the same agent or agency represents both the buyer and the seller in a real estate transaction. Dual agency raises concerns about potential conflicts of interest for agents, leading some states to prohibit the practice. However, dual agency may also benefit buyers and sellers, by offering information and transaction efficiencies, and by expanding the pool of houses and buyers that an agency can try to match with each other.

This handbook explains how ARMs work and discusses some of the issues that borrowers may face. It includes ways to reduce the risks and gives some pointers about advertising and other ways you can get information from lenders and other trusted advisers.

This website will help landlords understand and exercise their legal rights and gain knowledge about their state’s Landlord/Tenant Laws.

Articles and forms needed for real estate transactions

This article will present an overview of real property law in the United States. The basic concepts underlying real property law are the same throughout the United States. However, there are numerous variations in the application of these concepts between states as well as between counties and cities within states.

Presentation given by Steve Kropper, president of Bank on Real Estate at ARELLO (Association of Real Estate License Law Officials).

The Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section is a leading national forum for lawyers, and currently has over 30,000 members. The Real Property Division focuses on legal aspects of property use, ownership, development, transfer, regulation, financing, taxation and disposal. The Trust and Estate Division focuses on all aspects of trusts, estate planning, employee benefits, insurance, and probate and trust litigation.

Articles and updates on real estate.

Much has been written over the years to explain tax deferred exchanges, however, it has been my experience that most explanations are lengthy and much too technical. Being a well known real estate attorney with an emphasis in tax deferred exchanges, as well as an author on this subject, it has been brought to my attention that a simple to read guide explaining tax-deferred exchanges has been in high demand for quite a long time. I hope this guide will be useful to you.

EU membership has profound implications for all parts of a country’s economy, as well as for its relationships with the other countries in Europe and its internal political structures. Members of the EU must be democracies governed by the rule of law and which guarantee human rights. They must have functioning market economies able to withstand the competitive pressures that EU membership brings, and governmental structures capable of discharging the wide range of obligations imposed on EU Member States. Countries joining the EU are obliged to adopt a wide range of laws in order to harmonize their legal structures with those of the EU. This note is concerned with only one limited aspect of entry into the EU, namely, the impact on land tenure.

Recent times have seen a growing interest for title insurance in Europe and the new European Union member states in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltics, due to the rapid increase in cross-border real estate investments. In that regard, this paper assesses the potential for and actual use of, the insurance for managing real estate ownership risks in those regions.

International real estate professionals from non-European countries are discovering the European Union, and are developing an understanding of its growing role in the evolving real estate market of Europe.

Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land as distinct from personal or movable possessions) and in personal property, within the common law legal system. In the civil law system, there is a division between movable and immovable property. Movable property roughly corresponds to personal property, while immovable property corresponds to real estate or real property, and the associated rights and obligations thereon.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland comprises one state, four countries and three jurisdictions. The jurisdictions are (i) England and Wales (ii) Scotland and (iii) Northern Ireland. Each jurisdiction has its own courts, its own lawyers, and its own law. The state has a common parliament (the House of Commons and House of Lords), a common executive, and a common supreme court (the House of Lords), all based in London. But in recent years there has been administrative and legislative devolution both to Scotland and to Northern Ireland.

Real property law is not, at least not yet, in the focus of developments and discussions on European private law. Rather, it still retains its quite parochial flavour –and, may be, with good reason. Some will even point to art. Art. 295 EC-Treaty which states: “The Treaty shall in no way prejudice the rules in Member States governing the system of property ownership.” However, art. 295 EC-Treaty only looks straightforward but in reality has been very much diluted so that its real bearing is far from being clear.

There is only a limited number of comparative legal studies on real property law. This may be explained by a simple reason: Lex rei sitae governs the legal situation of all real property transactions. As a consequence, there are fewer conflict of laws questions and jurisdictional questions than in other areas of law. If you deal with real property questions, you mostly know into which legal system you have to look for an answer.

The practice of real estate business in the UK has its unique characteristics. The basic principles relating to property matters in England and Wales can mainly be discovered from the body of legislation passed in 1925, among which the Law of Property Act 1925 (L.P.A. 1925) is the most important. The 1925 property legislation has been amended and/or superseded by later statutes which also have a profound effect upon today's practical issues.

For the first time in the PRC, the Property Law provides for ownership by private persons. Private persons have the right to ownership of all property except land. Private ownership includes buildings and fixtures located on land. This Part also includes the rules for real property concepts of neighboring rights, common ownership and condominium ownership.

On March 16 the National People’s Congress passed the draft Property Bill, which will become law as of tomorrow (October 1). We will use “compulsory eviction” as a moot point to describe a once cruel urban landscape in the absence of such a law, as well as reveal the effect of private property right being forcibly distorted, and in some cases even barbarically erased.

After 14 years of preparation, the Property Rights Law of the Peoples Republic of China entered into force on October 1, 2007. The current state of property law in China on the basis of this statute is the subject of this article. It is based on the authors almost a decade long consultation experience in the law-making process. The central thrust of the law is the protection of private property through the socialist market economy of the Peoples Republic of China.

China's legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), is currently debating a property rights bill which will take account of individual assets for the first time. The draft law is long-awaited but has taken many twists and turns along the way.

China has passed a new property law that introduces a wide range of specific improvements for the private sector and, for the first time, recognises that an individual's private property rights are protected to the same level as that afforded to collective and State property rights.

Are there any restrictions on the right to own residential property in Singapore? What private properties are foreigners eligible to buy without the approval of the land Dealings Approval Unit? What is a joint-tenancy? What is a tenancy-in-common? These are some of the questions answered by this guide.

This topic examines the steps, time, and cost involved in registering property in Japan.

Analysis of property rights, mortgages and credits on different countries of Asia.

International property buying is here big time. British people buy in France, Spain, Portugal and in Bulgaria. Germans buy in Croatia. Asian entrepreneurs buy in Australia and Canada. U.S. citizens buy in the Caribbean. Yet people often don't get the information they need. They rely on realtors, who are self-interested and frankly sometimes not even very well informed.So we sat down and thought: What should we have known?

The Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management at the University of Denver offers a database of country profiles with a focus on real estate issues. Compare the real estate property issues or trends of up to five countries. Profiles include information about the countrys geography, history, people, government, economy, transportation, and communication, as well as a summary of real estate issues and trends, and cultural issues. Each profile also provides additional references.

Shelter represents one of the most basic needs of man and has no doubt a profound impact on the health, welfare and productivity of the individual. Land tenure and administration remain pivotal to any meaningful policy on housing delivery. This paper discusses the problems of housing delivery within the context of land ownership and management in Nigeria. It identifies the various legislative, administrative and policy issues confronting easy delivery of housing stock, particularly to the low income group and the people in the informal sector of the economy. The paper then makes proposal for reform.

Guide to all acts and regulations of the property law in Australia.

The real property lease checklist addresses the most common issues that you need to consider when you negotiate a real property lease. This comprehensive checklist identifies the terms and clauses that need to be addressed in a real property lease. It also contains questions under each term or clause that flush out the most important issues pertaining to that term or clause.

Articles written by attorneys and experts worldwide discussing legal aspects related to Real Estate including: construction law, eminent domain, foreclosure, homeowners association, land use and zoning, landlord and tenant law, property law, property management.

Foreclosure is the legal proceedings in which a property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. When a homeowner is unable to make principal and/or interest payments on his or her mortgage, the creditor can seize and sell the property at a public auction.

Landlord and Tenant Law regulates the rights and responsibilities of landlords and tenants and empowers applications such as seeking extension of a lease or some other action or dispute concerning tenancy.