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Green Buildings Begin to Make Dollars and Sense
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:22:21-05:00Saturday, June 10th, 2006|Categories: Environmental Law|
Green Buildings are beginning to be environmentally sound investments as government provides the necessary incentives to advance the wider use of alternative “green” methods, buying down slightly higher up front construction costs that are often, again over time, recouped in reduced operating costs and additionally ...
Real Estate in the 2006 Maryland General Assembly Session
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:17:52-05:00Friday, April 14th, 2006|Categories: Real Estate Law|
The 2006 session of the Maryland General Assembly adjourned at midnight on Monday, April 10th. After consideration of 2,856 bills over 90 days before sine die, the legislature passed a total of 823 bills (489 Senate bills and 334 House bills), and maybe not surprisingly ...
Oregon’s Property Rights Law Portends Change for Maryland
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:16:52-05:00Friday, March 10th, 2006|Categories: Land Use Law|
The Oregon Supreme Court has just upheld a sweeping voter initiated measure that allows a property owner to seek compensation from the government if land use regulations reduce the value of their land. Given that Oregon’s land use laws are often cited as the philosophical ...
“All Appropriate Inquiries” Standard Finalized For Environmental Site Assessments
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:22:17-05:00Friday, February 10th, 2006|Categories: Environmental Law|
EPA has, at long last, established regulatory standards and practices for evaluating a property’s environmental conditions necessary to qualify for certain landowner liability protections under the Superfund law and, as such, it is now time to modify the scope of future Phase I Environmental Site ...
A “Doctor’s Note” Now Terminates A Residential Lease
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:08-05:00Saturday, September 10th, 2005|Categories: Real Estate Law|
Effective October 1, 2005, Maryland law will limit the liability of a tenant for rent under a residential lease to no more than two months’ rent if the tenant provides a ‘doctor’s note’ terminating the lease before the end of the term because of a ...
Caveat Emptor is Dead in Maryland Home Sales
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:01-05:00Wednesday, August 10th, 2005|Categories: Real Estate Law|
Effective October 1, 2005, Maryland law requires a seller of single family residential real property to disclose specified information about latent defects to a purchaser before entering into a sales contract. With this radical change in Maryland law, caveat emptor is dead. The complete maxim, ...
Caveat Emptor is Dead in Maryland Home Sales
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:17:54-05:00Wednesday, August 10th, 2005|Categories: Real Estate Law|
Effective October 1, 2005, Maryland law requires a seller of single family residential real property to disclose specified information about latent defects to a purchaser before entering into a sales contract. With this radical change in Maryland law, caveat emptor is dead. The complete maxim, ...
Law Suits Against Land Surveyors are Limited by Change in Law
By Stuart Kaplow|2022-01-22T15:18:12-05:00Monday, June 27th, 2005|Categories: Real Estate Law|
Senate Bill 14 reduces the time in which a person may seek recovery for damages incurred for an error in a survey of land from 20 to 15 years after the survey, or within three years after the discovery of the error, whichever occurs first. ...




