Real estate cycles are generally created by movements in demand not supply. While it is important to track commercial real estate performance through various cycles and divergent trends, patterns of performance are impacted not just by supply and demand, ...

As reported in a post to CRE Insider on March 29, 2016, the United States Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued Geographic Targeting Orders (GTO) on January 13, 2016 requiring “certain U.S. title insurance companies ...

Exchange vs. Non-Exchange Expenses When closing a 1031 exchange transaction, it’s important to focus on which expenses are being paid with exchange funds. Some expenses that are expenses of owning property (such as property taxes and insurance) rather ...

New York State remains the only state still using UCC forms dated 2001. While it may appear to be embarrassing as the “financial center of the world”, there are actually some benefits of these old forms over the new forms being used by every other state.

Introduction In response to the surge in lender-liability claims against mortgage lenders commencing in the mid-1980s -- especially in connection with affirmative claims or defenses of borrowers based on breach of an alleged oral agreement to lend; to ...

The New York City Real Property Transfer is as much as 2.625% on the transfer of commercial real property and on the transfer of a controlling interest in a real property owning entity. New York State’s Real Estate Transfer Tax on such transfers is $4.00 ...