Practice Areas: Real Estate Law

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Loislaw's Real Estate Law Library provides useful information for attorneys practicing both residential and commercial real estate law. Attorneys will find the critical information that they need to:

• Prepare commercial lease agreements and handle disputes arising between real estate brokers and buyers and sellers of residential real estate
• Understand the nuances of title insurance for both residential and commercial real estate, and negotiate and draft a commercial real estate acquisition contract
• Keep up-to-date on the key elements of state law affecting commercial leases
• Access statutes that are relevant to commercial leasing in each of the fifty states in State-by-State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases
• Copy and customize sample real estate law forms, clauses and checklists in Commercial Real Estate Transactions Handbook, for use in all types of real estate transactions
• Additional Aspen Treatises include Commercial Real Estate Leases, Law of Title Insurance, Law of Real Estate Brokers and Environmental Liability & Real Property Transactions: Law & Practice

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Handbook of Massachusetts Land Use & Planning Law

The Handbook of Massachusetts Land Use & Planning Law provides all the insightful analysis and practical, expert advice you need. Helpful tables facilitate convenient case law review, while forms and extensive cross-references make the library even more useful. Detailed coverage is provided on the following issues as:

• Affordable housing
• Special permit and variance decisions
• Zoning in Boston
• Nonconforming uses and structures
• Administrative appeal procedures
• Enforcement requests
• Building permits
• Vested rights
• Agricultural use exemptions
• Current tests for exactions
• SLAPP suit procedures
• Impact fees
• Civil rights challenges