Real Estate & Property Law

Ongoing Debate: Will Stopping Foreclosure Help The Housing Market
"Housing economists and analysts go back to the question of whether it?s still worth saving the current market or if it?s better to let the market free fall and think about the housing market?s future...

This Way There Be Dragons
"If you read the headlines the last few days you would think that the housing market has turned. Mostly they read something like ?Home Sales Rise 0.3%,? and of course the reflexive bulls started talking about green shoots and a bottom in housing...

Lenders Slow Foreclosures By 5% in 2010, Boosting Shadow Inventory: RealtyTrac
"James Saccacio, CEO of RealtyTrac, said at the current pace, more than 3m properties will receive a foreclosure filing by the end of the year, and lenders will repossess more than 1m of them...

Sellers wonder when housing market will hit bottom
"After years of assuming the housing market couldn't get any worse, a growing number of Triangle homeowners and agents are now resigned to the fact that no one seems to know when it will hit bottom"

Fixing The US Housing Market
"TWO YEARS into what's supposed to be an economic recovery, the US housing market remains on life support. If the housing market isn't fixed soon, it's going to drag the rest of the economy down into a hellish bottom that will take years, if not decades, to crawl out of"

More Negative Sentiment for Homeownership
During the housing busts that followed the California housing bubbles of the late '70s and late '80s, there came a period when sentiment for homeownership changed. The evidence was anecdotal, but it was not uncommon to hear people say owning a home was "dumb"...

Fair Housing Act
Prevent discrimination by landlords

KB Home and Countrywide Financial Corp.
allegedly conspired with appraisers to boost housing prices as the market crashed.

Whole Foods Market Recalls Bulk Hazelnuts
Whole Foods Market Recalls Bulk Hazelnuts

Billion Dollar Ice Market
Probed for Price-Fixing

G&J Gourmet Market Cocoa
Recalled for Possible Melamine Contamination

Apartment Appointment
Pine Properties Inc. pays $158,000 housing discrimination settlement.

Disability Access
Developers pay $175,000 settlement for failing to comply with the Fair Housing Act.