There is so much uncertainty globally that nothing is predictable! Economic factors impacting commercial real estate, such as record-high valuations and property pricing, rising interest rates, and an overall structural shift in the global economy are ...

Learn how to structure your deal to maximize your tax benefits and leverage a 1031 exchange to your advantage.

When a partnership owns real estate and plans to sell it, the individual partners often disagree about whether to set up an exchange or cash out, and whether they want to acquire something together or go their separate ways. If all of the partners want ...

Lenders should be especially careful when drafting attorneys’ fees provisions in commercial loan documents that contain nonrecourse provisions with specific carveouts. For example, in Aozora Bank, Ltd. v. 1333 North California Boulevard, 119 Cal. App. ...

With respect to a negative pledge, i.e., a covenant by the borrower not to convey or encumber specified real property during the term of the subject loan, the restatement (third) of property (mortgages) (“restatement”) (1997) § 3.5, Negative Covenant ...

Mortgage recording tax must be paid to record a mortgage in New York State, unless there is a statutory exemption from the tax. The tax rate varies depending on the location of the mortgaged property, the highest rate of tax being $2.80 for each $100 of ...