Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings:A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying and Selling Real Estate is an invaluable resource for attorneys and general practitioners who handle real estate deals as well as an important reference for brokers, title insurers, and inspectors. It distills more than thirty years of transactional experience into one plain-English treatise that clearly explains governing law and customary industry practices. The book provides useful legal, technical, and strategic guidance and checklists for sellers’ and purchasers’ attorneys preparing them to execute dispute-free residential deals quickly and easily.
This new release offers the latest information crucial to your practice. Highlights include:
- Ethics and Professional Responsibility, [8] Attorney Escrow Accounts. Updated to include New York State Bar Association Ethics Opinions on deposits to maintain an escrow account.
- Section 2:3.24, Representations of Seller and Conditions to Closing. Updated to cover Section 13.02 of the commercial contract (Forms 154 and 3125).
- Section 2:4, Contracts for Tenanted Buildings. Updated to include the provision in commercial contract (Forms 154 and 3125) regarding defects in title (see section 2:4.1).
- A new section entitled Lasting Model Forms compiles the author’s work on model bar association contract forms.
In addition, the Table of Authorities and Index have been updated to reflect the latest revisions.
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