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First American Announces First Quarter 2019 Earnings Conference Call

By Tanisha Quilter on April 19, 2019
First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), a leading global provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions, today announced that it will host a conference call on Thursday, April 25, 2019, at 11 ...
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Notice of Pendency Not Properly Filed by Adjoining Owners

By Mike Berey on February 27, 2019
The Supreme Court, Suffolk County, granted the application the Petitioner had submitted to the Town of East Hampton’s Zoning Board for approval of a subdivision map and directed the Zoning Board to grant final approval. Intervenors opposed the ...
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Topics: Commercial Real Estate

Mortgage Foreclosures / Appointing an Administrator for a Deceased Mortgagor

By Mike Berey on February 5, 2019
The Defendant-mortgagor died in 2009; a mortgage foreclosure was commenced in 2016. No representative was substituted for the decedent in the foreclosure. The foreclosing Plaintiff’s motion to vacate the foreclosure sale, the Order of Reference and the ...
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Topics: foreclosure

Religious Status of Property Owner Considered

By Mike Berey on January 29, 2019
A survey showed that a building under construction encroached up to 3.75 inches onto the Plaintiff Church’s property. Justice Modica of the Supreme Court, Queens County, serving as an Emergency Justice, held that the encroachments were not de minimis ...
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Topics: CRE trends CRE

Fraud in the Inducement

By Mike Berey on January 15, 2019
Plaintiffs sought to recover their property, alleging that they had conveyed their property to the Defendant based on the misrepresentation that the Defendant would assist them in effectuating a short sale to relieve them from a defaulted mortgage debt. ...
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Topics: Fraud CRE

Digital Disruption in Commercial Real Estate      How We Live: On the Road

By First American NCS on January 3, 2019
This is the second in a series of vignettes discussing the disruptors remaking commercial real estate and impacting how we live, work, play, invest and build.
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Topics: Commercial Real Estate digital disruption CRE Technology

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