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Real Estate Law covers a wide range of different subjects all revolving around the Real Estate world, including land along with improvements to the land, such as buildings, fences, wells and other site improvements that are fixed in location. Real estate law is the body of regulations and legal codes which cover such matters under a particular jurisdiction and include things such as commercial and residential real property transactions. Real Estate Law affects millions of people all over the world, and you will most likely encounter it if you're planning to build a house, or making substantial changes to your home. Before doing anything drastic, it's always a good idea to make sure you're on the right side of the law, and at Going Legal, our Real Estate Law section aims to ensure that you do everything correctly, every step of the way by referring to our vast range of Real Estate related articles.


Real Estate Law Articles

Real Estate Law

Home owners in Non-Judicial States are Susceptible

08th February 2011
Seventy % of foreclosures in America fall into the non-judicial states where the banks and other lenders do not require courts to evaluation the foreclosure agreements and hence the home owners in these non-judicial states; Colorado and Washington between...
Author: Lewis Pitts
Real Estate Law

Exactly What Is A Landlords Insurance Product?

07th February 2011
You may own a single rental property or maybe you own a wide assortment of rental properties. No matter what, if you're a landlord in any kind of capacity, then you really have got to be certain that you're going to be adequately covered with insurance, f...
Author: Denise Judge
Real Estate Law

Drop in Valuation is Affecting the Houses that are Not in Foreclosure

05th February 2011
The appraisal laws are becoming stringent because during the boom the hiking up of the valuation of house led to the chaos. The appraisers got their assignments from the mortgage brokers who gained from the escalating prices. The appraisers had a fr...
Author: karen
Real Estate Law

Historic House Covered with Foreclosure Mould

05th February 2011
Mould is covering the drywall, the floors and walls of historic abandoned residences in old Philadelphia gnawing into its heart. There are thousand of such units peppering suburban ghostly townships except this time it is in one of the streets that ...
Author: karen
Real Estate Law

Ventura moving companies

28th January 2011
Obtaining home in Ventura, California and choosing excellent Ventura movers organizations. Data About Choosing a New Home or Acquiring an Present Home When any family members is searching into purchasing a house, they are confronted with an critical deter...
Author: Glen Beach
Real Estate Law

INVESTING INTO THE UNKNOWN

27th January 2011
Last month, I was invited to make a presentation to a local Rotary club about trends in real estate and the economy. This was no dog and pony show with an eternal happy face. On the contrary, I warned the audience early on that, if they get easily depre...
Author: John Hill
Real Estate Law

PLUNDERING THE ECONOMY!

27th January 2011
“Plunder!” is a wonderful new book by Steven Greenhut that I am currently reading. He describes how public employee unions have corrupted politicians, who in turn are bankrupting states (especially California) and cities. It is a well-written book that ...
Author: John Hill
Real Estate Law

BACK TO BASICS ON MORTGAGE NOTES

27th January 2011
Not so many decades ago, banks loaned money to people to buy a house and then kept the loan. Because the bank held on to the mortgage note, they made sure that the buyer put in a reasonably large down payment and had the ability and character to repay th...
Author: John Hill
Real Estate Law

RECLAIMING A HOUSE … REALLY ??

27th January 2011
The foreclosure mess recently took another step toward surrealism. You may have heard that the Earl family, which had previously been evicted from a house in Simi Valley (northwest of Los Angeles), California, decided that they had the right to reclaim t...
Author: John Hill
Real Estate Law

Creating a Note – Collecting payments (Part 4 in the series)

27th January 2011
In the first three installments, we covered setting a sales price for your property, collecting a down payment and setting up the mortgage note, and being sure that you use the right documents. Now that the property has been sold and all of the right doc...
Author: John Hill
Real Estate Law

DECISIONS AS THE COUNTRY IS DRIVEN INTO A DITCH

27th January 2011
A good friend of mine called yesterday to say hello. After the usual pleasantries, we got into a fun discussion about the economy and did our usual rants about the country’s terrible politicians. We came at this discussion from different angles. He doe...
Author: John Hill
Real Estate Law

Creating a Note – Terms & Documents (Part 3 in the series)

27th January 2011
You have hopefully reviewed parts 1 and 2 in this series, so have become more knowledgeable about setting the sales price for a property, collecting the down payment, and whether to carry a 2nd lien. Of course, there is much more to know if you will be s...
Author: John Hill
Real Estate Law

Why the Happy Face on Housing?

27th January 2011
Newspapers and smiling TV commentators have been telling us for several months that the real estate market and economy are improving, and may soon return to pre-2006 growth rates. While I don’t believe that for the economy in general or for real estate i...
Author: John Hill
Real Estate Law

THE CASE FOR FALLING REAL ESTATE PRICES

27th January 2011
“Prices are rising!” “Buy now, while prices and rates are low!” To listen to the talking heads and to read the papers, one would think that real estate prices are in the basement and have nowhere to go but up. To those of us who knew a residential real...
Author: John Hill
Real Estate Law

7 Tips On How To Sell Your Real Estate Note

27th January 2011
Most people with a real estate note are not familiar with how to sell that note and how to make sure that the mortgage note buyer is trustworthy. The tips below are basics to help you down the path of successfully selling your real estate note: 1.Work...
Author: John Hill
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