Massachusetts Estate Tax: How Gifts Can Reduce Taxes, but Maybe Not In the Way You Think
With the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed and effective as of January 1, 2018, the amount each individual can transfer during life or at death without incurring any Federal estate… Read More
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Foreclosing Lender’s Duty to Determine Property’s Potential Development Value
The Massachusetts Court of Appeals recently held that a foreclosing lender must use reasonable efforts to get the best price and, when those efforts reveal the potential to develop the property to… Read More
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Angel Kozeli Mozina Published in REBA Massachusetts’ Blog
The article “Chapter 527 – Check Before You Convert!” by REBA’s Condominium Law and Practice Section Co-chair Angel Kozeli Mozina was published in REBA Massachusetts’ blog. The number of residential buildings in… Read More
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Lauren Galvin Published in Boston Real Estate Times and INDIA New England News
The article “New Short-Term Rental Law Effective in Massachusetts This Summer” by Lauren Galvin discusses the new short-term rental law for Massachusetts and its new requirements. Read the full article in Boston Real… Read More
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New Short-Term Rental Law Effective Summer 2019
If you plan to rent your house this summer, be prepared for a change in the State Law effective July 1, 2019. On December 28, 2018, Governor Baker signed An Act Regulating… Read More
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Francesco De Vito Published in Law360
The article “Mass. Affordable Housing Covenants Safe During Foreclosure” by Francesco De Vito discusses two recognized truisms of Massachusetts foreclosure law in the recent case of Boston Redevelopment Authority d/b/a Boston Planning… Read More
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No Damages to Owner Whose Lot Is Unbuildable Due to Wetlands Regulations
When the Conservation Commission refused to permit the construction of a house on her residential lot in a Falmouth subdivision, Janice Smyth decided to take action and sought damages for a regulatory… Read More
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Affordable Housing Covenants Have Protected Status in Foreclosures
The Boston Redevelopment Authority d/b/a Boston Planning and Development Agency has the right to challenge a foreclosure that purportedly terminated a covenant restricting the use of property to affordable housing. In allowing… Read More
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The Great Salisbury Billboard Race
A Massachusetts regulation stating that no two digital billboards may be erected within 1,000 feet of one another set up a race between competing billboard companies that owned abutting land. Although the… Read More
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Francesco De Vito Published in Banker & Tradesman
The article “Momentum Building for LIBOR Replacements” by Francesco De Vito discusses the phase-out of LIBOR. “Imagine you sign a contract and later learn that one of its key financial underpinnings will… Read More
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