Real Estate Law News and Insights

Every state in the U.S. has some form of an unclaimed property law, or UPL. State UPLs generally require businesses that are holding property due and owing to another (i.e., usually money) to hand over that property to the appropriate state government if the business loses contact with the owner...

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What happens when a property owner refuses to consent to a deed notice to address historic fill on its property? Engineering and institutional controls, often a cap and deed notice, can greatly reduce the cost of environmental remediation.  Where appropriate, engineering and institutional controls can allow remediating parties to avoid...

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Due to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, many local governments in California have passed eviction moratoriums prohibiting landlords from evicting residential tenants who fail to pay rent. Although those ordinances have some narrow exceptions, such as where a tenant engages in criminal activity on the property, the ordinances...

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