Eviction After Foreclosure: California Supreme Court Weighs In
This week, the California Supreme Court issued its opinion in Dr. Leevil, LLC v. Westlake Health Care Center. The case reviewed the decision of the California…
Contribution Rights Among Co-Guarantors: Liability Must Be Proportional
In reviewing notable guaranty cases from 2017 while preparing this year’s updates and edits for CEB’s top-notch treatise, California Mortgages, Deeds of Trust, and Foreclosure Litigation,…
Commercial Landlord Not Liable to Holdover Tenant for Damages on the Leased Premises
When a commercial lease tenant experiences the joy of a sewer line backup, which causes raw sewage to flow from all of the sinks on the…
When a Tenant Exercises an Option to Purchase, When Does the Obligation to Pay Rent End?
Some commercial leases provide the tenant with an option to purchase the real property. When the tenant exercises such an option, does the tenant’s obligation to…
Money and Dirt: Reviewing 2017
Here is a look back at some of the top real estate and secured lending developments from 2017 covered here at Money and Dirt: The 2016…
When a Lender Forecloses on a Leasehold Interest….
Loans are often secured by the fee title to real property owned by the borrower. But loans can also be secured by the borrower’s leasehold interest…
California Enacts New Regulatory Framework for Medical and Recreational Cannabis
This blog usually explores the relationship between real estate and one green substance — money. But cannabis is the greenery getting a lot of recent attention…
Eviction Immediately After Foreclosure?
Lenders who foreclose and take ownership of security property via credit bid at the foreclosure sale often confront a tenant whose lease has been extinguished, but…
Exercising a Real Estate Option: the Devil is in the Details
Leases often contain options to renew or extend the lease, and sometimes also an option to purchase the property at the end of the lease term.…
Money and Dirt: Reviewing 2015; Previewing 2016
We’ll end 2015 with a quick look back at some of the important developments in California real estate and secured lending law covered in this blog,…