Modern Real Estate Finance and Land Transfer: A Transactional Approach

<p> This challenging yet accessible casebook examines the legal, business, and tax issues of real estate financing through a transactional and interdisciplinary approach. Written by scholar-practitioners, <b>Modern Real Estate Finance and Land Transfer: A Transactional Approach, Fourth Edition</b>, uses real-world examples to illustrate the lawyer’s role in both residential and commercial real estate transactions. </p><p><b>Among the attributes that make this class-tested casebook a success:</b></p><ul><li> a <b>sophisticated, yet teachable</b> style </li><li><b>thorough explanations</b> of the increasingly complex legal, business, and tax issues surrounding real estate transactions </li><li> the <b>transactional and interdisciplinary approach</b> demonstrates the general rules of law that govern a given real estate transaction, the rules’ underlying rationale or policy, and how (or whether) a rule can be superseded by the mutual consent of each party </li><li><b>real-world examples</b> that help foster practical skills required of attorneys in real estate firms and <b>clear explanations</b> that demonstrate rules of law that govern a real estate transaction </li><li><b>questions and planning problems</b> that allow students to examine issues in the context of relevant transactions or documents </li><li> a <b>topical and chronological organization</b> that covers both real estate and real estate finance and follows the lending cycle in modern real estate financing </li></ul><p><b>Special features of the Fourth Edition, completely updated to reflect changes in the law, include:</b></p><ul><li><b>bankruptcy reform law changes</b></li><li> discussion of the popularization in recent years of <b>“exotic” forms of financing</b>, particularly in residential markets </li><li><b>changes in the prepayment area</b></li><li><b>treatment of the so-called mortgage meltdown in 2007</b></li><li><b>updated and substantially rewritten materials on the economics of real estate investments, selection of the ownership entity, and securitization</b></li><li><b>new title insurance forms</b></li><li> consideration of <b>mold—the “new asbestos”</b></li><li> an <b>updated Teacher’s Manual</b></li></ul><p><b>Modern Real Estate Finance and Land Transfer: A Transactional Approach, Fourth Edition</b>, is the perfect casebook for professors who cover the complex financial and tax aspects of real estate law—whether in a basic real estate course and or an advanced seminar. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p>