Circuit City defaulted on a 20-year lease in the Wintergreen Plaza Shopping Center when the electronics retailer relocated to a different Rockville Pike shopping center in violation of a “continuous operation” provision of the lease. And in this case, instructive to landlords and tenants alike, ...

At approximately 1:17 a.m. on June 13, 1998, an unidentified intruder entered apartment A-2 of the Pelham Wood Apartments, a second floor two-bedroom unit, through a sliding glass door and upon encountering the tenant in the apartment master bedroom shot him in the abdomen. The ...

Comments of Stuart D. Kaplow, Chair of the Board of the Greater Towson Committee, at the occasion of the 2003 annual meeting. This is an historic time - 2003 is the 300th anniversary of the establishment of the first business in Towson. The first residents ...

Under the USA Patriotic Act “persons involved in real estate closings and settlements” are required to establish anti-money laundering programs. Participants in residential and commercial real estate transactions now risk the imposition, by the federal government, of onerous anti-money laundering requirements that would have been ...

The Maryland General Assembly has sent to ‘summer study’ legislation that prohibits landlords from unmetered water billing to tenants. House Bill 976 prohibits landlords from using a “ratio utility system” to charge a tenant for water consumption and waste water or sewerage use by the ...

The 2003 session of the Maryland General Assembly adjourned at midnight on Monday, April 7th. After consideration of 1,959 bills over 90 days before sine die, the legislature passed a total of 629 bills (252 Senate bills and 377 House bills). During the first gubernatorial ...

Maryland’s “Day of Rest” law has received scant attention and many in the real estate community would be surprised that the law makes unenforceable “open for business” clauses typically found in shopping center leases such that a landlord can not require a merchant to open ...