Every year, newly-minted law students are incredulous to learn about the doctrine of “adverse possession,” a legal pathway by which property owners can lose title to their real estate if a neighbor, or total stranger, has been using the owners’ land for a long enough time without their permission. While most law students will have […]
Cramer & Anderson Partner Neal White’s role in bringing 7-Eleven’s dynamic new format to Connecticut is highlighted by CSP Daily News in a story about the debut of a 5,230-square-foot store in Danbury. Attorney White, whose practice areas include Business, Corporate and Commercial Law and Real Estate Law, has represented site owner ANZ Petroleum and
Open building permits are yet another potential stumbling block to smooth and trouble free home sales. With the housing market in Connecticut continuing its surge, encountering these hurdles has become widespread. It’s essentially a standard now for attorneys handling real estate transactions to advise clients to commission municipal inspections. While many sellers and buyers might
Driving around the streets of our towns, you may have noticed more and more residences sporting solar panels. With incentives and promotions, many homeowners in the past 10 years or so have added solar panels to their homes, achieving savings in electric bills. With the very active real estate market this past year, Cramer &
Savvy thieves are able to forge documents, commit fraud, and steal the title/deed to your home, potentially to sell the property to someone else and reap the proceeds, or use their fraudulent ownership to access a lending tool and extract the home’s equity. Such an occurrence is extremely unlikely, as it would be difficult to
My property taxes are escrowed with my mortgage. How do I know they are being paid? First, let’s be sure you understand how mortgage escrow works. Escrow is a legal agreement for a third party to hold your funds until it is legally time to provide them to another party. In a property tax escrow,
UPDATE: A General Assembly Finance Committee public hearing on the proposed new “mansion tax,” set forth in Senate Bill No. 171, is scheduled to be held via Zoom on Monday, March 15. Sign up here to offer testimony or comments. The hearing, beginning at 9 a.m., may be be viewed on YouTube. The odds are
With travel limited by the COVID-19 pandemic, scams involving the sale of timeshares seem to be on the rise. Federal government agencies and officials in some western states are issuing new warnings about scams targeting owners of timeshare properties, primarily in Mexico, following a rash of similar scams in 2019. The FBI Criminal Investigative Division
The exodus of families from New York City to Connecticut to escape coronavirus risks may continue making headlines, but our state’s population has decreased for six years in a row, and last year around this time the media was focusing on the trend of residents moving out of state. Leaving Connecticut will get more expensive beginning July 1
Cramer & Anderson Partner Dan Casagrande has won a major antitrust case in the Connecticut Supreme Court. The March 24 decision overturns a decades-old precedent that tying agreements for real estate brokerage fees violate the Connecticut Antitrust Act. The court essentially ruled that antitrust law had evolved through federal actions in ways that invalidated the Connecticut precedent established in
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