Real Estate Law, 6th Edition

Real Estate Law, Sixth Edition tells the "story" of real estate from its basic spatial and conceptual form through all the most important private and public law transactions and processes that govern real estate in the United States today. It approaches the study of real estate law using the past to explain the present as well as presenting discussion of its future. It has been updated to include many new cases and concepts, and adds innovative material on the legal aspects of e-commerce and the probable impact it is having on real estate law today and tomorrow. The book is presented in a very clear, concise, and readable style. With its transactional approach, the book is especially practical and useful to both real estate majors and non-majors. 640pp.

Features:

• Excerpted and Summarized Cases: This text combines excerpted and summarized cases to illustrate points of law. The excerpted cases, or cases utilizing the language of the court, appear at the end of each chapter with references to these at appropriate points within the text. This provides students with the opportunity to study primary source material in the form of actual court cases. The summarized cases are short summaries that provide real-life examples. They are embedded within the text to provide the reader with an immediate example of the legal concept discussed.
• Practical Appendices: The appendices in the back of the book include checklists, numerous real estate forms, a dictionary of legal terms, and a checklist for use in drafting shopping center leases, which illustrate key issues that may arise in commercial leasing.
• Comprehensive Coverage: All major areas of real estate law are covered to provide a thorough understanding of the subject.
• Margin Definitions: Key terms and their definitions appear in the margin of the text to emphasize concepts and their importance, while also providing a quick review of highlighted terms.
• Internet Links: For those who wish to explore a topic more in-depth, URLs for appropriate Web sites are included in the text, and linked to from the text Web site.
• End-of-Chapter Problems: Each chapter concludes with a set of problems to provide students a way to check their comprehension of the chapter content. These questions can be used for class discussion, homework, or as exam questions.

New To This Edition:

• Ethics Coverage: Ethical Issues are now interspersed throughout the text as appropriate to encourages students to think about and discuss ethical issues that impact real estate law. "Ethical Problems" at the end of each chapter are designed to provoke further thought and discussion.
• Up-to-date: The sixth edition is revised to include recent changes in real estate law. Some examples include the importance of property rights in the Third World and the evolving definition of property rights, access to public beaches and the Public Trust Doctrine, water rights and the Colorado River, discount brokerage and the Internet, new defenses to CERCLA liability under the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownsfield's Revitalization Act of 2002.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction to the Legal System.
• 2. The Nature of Property.
• 3. The Scope of Real Property.
• 4. Rights in Land of Others.
• 5. Types of Ownership.
• 6. The Search for Real Estate.
• 7. The Real Estate Contract.
• 8. Title and Insurance.
• 9. Financing the Real Estate Purchase.
• 10. Closing and Taxation: Other Methods of Acquisition.
• 11. Landlord and Tenant. .
• 12. Rights and Duties of Landowners and Occupants.
• 13. Legal Planning and Regulation of Land Use.
• 14. Environmental Law and Regulation.
• Appendices.