Real Estate Transactions: Problems, Cases, and Materials / Edition 5

by Robin Paul Malloy, James Charles Smith

Overview

A concise text that provides students with the tools necessary to understand real estate transactions in a real-world market setting. Featuring cases and materials that reveal ethical and professional responsibility issues that allow students to see professional ethics in a real-world context. This integrated approach to explaining market and ethical constraints on transactional real estate lawyers includes clear and consise explanations on each topic.

Key Features:

• Detailed text explaining basic elements and market factors involved in each area of law.
• Excellent problems that increase in difficulty with each section.
• Cases that illustrate key points of commercial and residential real estate and the way problems arise in practice.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781454871064
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Law & Business
Publication date:	02/01/2017
Series:	Aspen Casebook Series
Edition description:	Fifth Edition, New Edition
Pages:	704
Product dimensions:	7.38(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Market Context for Real Estate Transactions
2. Real Estate Brokers
3. Preparing to Contract
4. Executory Contracts
5. Condition of the Property
6. Closing the Contract
7. Contract Remedies
8. Allocating Title Risk
9. Land Descriptions
10. Public Records
11. Title Products
12. Improving the Efficiency of the Title System
13. Housing Markets and Products
14. Possession and Use of Mortgaged Property
15. Residential Mortgage Markets and Products
16. Mortgage Obligations
17. Foreclosure
18. Mortgage Substitutes
19. Junior Mortgages
20. Basic Commercial Real Estate