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Landlord Fails To Properly Terminate Lease, Violating Automatic Stay
When a landlord enters into a lease with a tenant, the lease will generally grant the landlord the power to terminate the lease and evict the tenant...
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Broker Not Entitled To Commission In Oral Agreement
In a real estate transaction involving the lease or sale of commercial property, a real estate broker will typically play a significant role in the...
Lacking Contractual Provision, Landlord Loses Bid For Attorney Fees
Most commercial leases contain a provision allowing for the reimbursement of the landlord’s legal fees and costs when the tenant defaults under the...
Federal Court: Lease Options Are To Be Strictly Exercised
Most commercial tenants who invest, at their cost, significant sums of money in improving their leased premises often insist on including options for...
Negligence Claim Precluded By Real Estate Service Contract
There are many service providers in the real estate industry, such as real estate agents, architects and contractors. Some of these service providers...
Philadelphia Court Refuses To Set Aside Sheriff’s Sale
With the real estate market crashing and the recession otherwise hitting people hard, more and more properties are being subjected to sheriff’s sales...
Gist Of The Action Doctrine Does Not Preclude Fraud In Inducement Claim
A recent decision handed down by the state Superior Court in Mirizio v. Joseph stresses the importance of placing the terms of real estate...
Jury Allowed To Consider Testimony On Oral Modification Of Lease
In most leases, the landlord and tenant are specifically prohibited from orally modifying the lease. The purpose of such a prohibition is to protect...
Court: Landlord Is Not Responsible To Tenant For Fire Damage
A recent decision by a federal district court in Western Pennsylvania stressed how most tenants in multiunit buildings do not clearly understand the...
Court Refuses To Look Beyond Written Agreement Of Sale
In most situations, before real estate is transferred from the seller to the purchaser, the parties to the real estate transaction enter into a...