General liability insurance policies normally cover “property damage.” Physical injury to, or outright destruction of, property almost always fits within policy coverage. But what about situations…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…