Real Estate Transactions

For proven guidance and techniques for handling a commercial real estate deal, this practical guide will help you negotiate and close the deal. The authors cover each step of a real estate transaction in the order in which it generally arises, and offers pertinent advice, practice comments, and sample forms throughout. Because much of the real estate lawyer's practice revolves around transactional documents, the book's chapters emphasize the drafting, negotiation, and revision needed to get a deal closed. Written by a law professor and two real estate practitioners, this book offers a useful combination of text overview and practice pointers. It helps lawyers with less experience navigate through the maze of steps involved in a real estate transaction. At the same time, it serves as a valuable reference for more seasoned attorneys as well as those whose practice is concentrated in other areas of the law. Downloadable forms are available online.

Real Estate Transactions: Problems, Cases, and Materials, Second Edition, provides an updated and thorough explanation of both the principles and the process to give students a complete understanding of what happens and why.The casebook earned the respect of instructors nationwide through its effective structure and approach: - detailed text explains basic elements and market factors involved in each area of law - problems that increase in difficulty are the main teaching vehicle - carefully chose cases illustrate key points and the ways in which complications arise in practice, addressing both commercial and residential real estate - cases and materials reveal ethical issues as they arise in the real world - an extremely helpful Teacher's Manual includes answers to all the problems and an analysis of all principal casesThe Second Edition responds to user feedback to make the casebook even more effective: - the accompanying forms disk includes Contracts, deeds, mortgages, title insurance policies, and many other common real estate documents, together with problem sets keyed to the documents - streamlined for easier classroom use -- the text is over 300 pages shorter than the previous edition - provides updated information on UCC Article 9 as it relates to commercial lending practice - commentary on new federal legislation related to electronic signatures - offers cases relating to brokers, deed warranties of title, title insurance, mortgage default, and race and mortgage lending practices

Accounting for Real Estate Transactions, Second Edition is an up-to-date, comprehensive reference guide, specifically written to help professionals understand and apply the accounting rules relating to real estate transactions. This book provides financial professionals with a powerful tool to evaluate the accounting consequences of specific deals, enabling them to structure transactions with the accounting consequences in mind, and to account for them in accordance with US GAAP. Accountants and auditors are provided with major concepts, clear and concise explanations of real estate accounting rules, detailed applications of US GAAP, flowcharts, and exhaustive cross-references of the authoritative literature.