Real Estate Transactions: Cases and Materials on Land Transfer, Development and Finance

by Gerald Korngold, Paul Goldstein

This casebook covers all the major aspects of real estate transactions. Updated and expanded, this casebook provides an overview of this growing area of law. Highlights of the new edition include new coverage (cases and materials) of the subprime and mortgage finance crisis, predatory lending, the secondary market, and electronic mortgage systems, as well as a fully revamped and expanded shopping center chapter with new cases and readings. Also included are new cases on the basic elements of the real estate transaction, including brokers, contract conditions, contract remedies, the recording system, marketable title statutes, the Torrens system, and mortgage financing; and revised coverage of commercial transactions including new cases in the areas of commercial mortgages and environmental liability.

277 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2009