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, ...

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. ...

Earlier today, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled that local government may seize people's homes and businesses against their will for private redevelopment. The conflict between government sponsored economic development versus individual property rights make this case, Kelo et al v. City of New London, ...

This article, describing the requirements for Howard County, Maryland, is one in a series of compilations identifying issues that must be addressed in an agreement of sale for real estate located within particular jurisdictions in the Old Line State. Accepting that real estate is one ...

With the aim of preserving agriculture in an environment of ever encroaching housing on farm land, most counties in the State of Maryland require that a statutorily prescribed Right To Farm Notice be included in agreements of sale for real estate. The Notice warns buyers ...

The 2005 session of the Maryland General Assembly adjourned at midnight on Monday, April 11th. After consideration of 2,632 bills over 90 days before sine die, the legislature passed a total of 826 bills (350 Senate bills and 476 House bills). During the first gubernatorial ...

This article, compiling the requirements for Anne Arundel County, is one in a series of compositions that identify issues that must be addressed in agreements of sale for real estate located within particular jurisdictions in Maryland. Accepting that real estate is one of the most ...

At a time when Baltimore County citizens identify crime as the most serious issue impacting their community and in response to a murder in a parking garage of a local shopping mall, the County has become the first local government in the nation to require ...