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Updated Treatise: Holtzchue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings

Holtzchue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings: A Step-by-Step Guide to Buying and Selling Real Estate (Third Edition) provides thorough legal, technical, strategic guidance to help implement dispute-free residential and commercial deals more quickly and easily. Featuring checklists, highlighted practice tips, and dozens of useful forms, this treatise is a valuable step-by-step “how to” guide that ensures practitioners can successfully prepare for a sale or purchase of real estate.

Release #21 includes new and updated cases and other authority throughout the text, including in the following important areas:

  • Attorney Malpractice: New section collects malpractice cases (see Front Matter at “Ethics and Professional Responsibility,” section [10]).
  • Purchase Money Note and Mortgage: Recent cases on installment land sale contracts (see section 2:2.5[B]).
  • Acceptable Title and Title Insurance: Where the N.Y. Appellate Division reversed annulment of Insurance Regulation 208, which prohibited title insurance corporations and title agents from providing any marketing payments or entertainments to attorneys, but affirmed annulment of regulations on closer fees and ancillary fee caps.
  • Closing Date and Place: Recent cases where the contract expressly states that time is of the essence (see section 2:2.9).
  • Condition of Premises and Caveat Emptor: Recent cases on affirmative representation on mold and Property Condition Disclosure Statement regarding water damage (see section 2:2.11[A][2]).
  • Remedies for Breach or Failure to Close: Recent cases on breaches by seller and specific performance (see section 2:2.17[A],[A][3]).
  • NYSBA Ethics Opinions: NYSBA Ethics Opinion 1161, opining that when a lawyer prepares a contract of sale, the lawyer may not disclose the contract to the broker who requested a copy without the client’s informed consent (see section 1:1.2).

This treatise is available on PLI PLUS. If you would like to order a print copy, please contact libraryrelations@pli.edu.

PLI Course Handbooks Published in February 2015

Listed below are the PLI Course Handbooks published in February 2015:

Bankruptcy & Restructuring:

Corporate and Securities:

Employment:

Estates & Trust:

International Law:

Real Estate:

Tax:

November 2011 Course Handbook Update

Listed below are the PLI Course Handbooks that were published during the month of November 2011.

Corporate Law and Practice Series:

  • 44th Annual Immigration & Naturalization Institute
  • Advanced Compliance and Ethics Workshop 2011
  • Financial Services Industry Regulatory Compliance & Ethics Forum 2011

 Intellectual Property Series:

  • Outsourcing 2011
  • Patent Litigation
  • Tracking and Targeting Customers and Prospects Online and in Social Media 2011

Litigation & Administrative Practice Series:

  • Bet the Company Litigation 2011

Real Estate Law & Practice Series:

  • 13th Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute
  • Negotiating Commercial Leases 2011

If you have any questions or would like to order a title, please contact the Library Relations Help Desk at libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291.

Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings

Release #4 is now available for Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts and Closings.

This title is written by a veteran real estate attorney who helped write New York’s standard residential and commercial real estate contracts.  This treatise clearly explains the governing law and customary industry practices to ensure that you know how to prepare for a sale or purchase of real estate, including how to deal with the appropriate documents, tax issues, and brokers; draft and negotiate the contract, with the help of numerous laborsaving sample forms that speed the process; prepare for the closing, including the documents and scheduling details; and close the sale, including delivering and reviewing deeds and other paperwork and dealing with insurance policies, tax documents, and closing checks.

Included are checklists for sellers’ and purchasers’ attorneys that ensure all key steps are taken, as well as highlighted tips that underscore important transactional issues.

If your library is on standing order for this treatise, you can expect Release #4 to arrive soon.  If you’d like to order the release please email libraryrelations@pli.edu or call 877-900-5291. 

View a sample chapter here.