NoVa condo buyers may recover pre-recession deposits 
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Published: July 15, 2010
Tags: Federal Courts, Judge Paul V. Niemeyer, Real Estate
Purchasers of condominiums in the Merrifield Town Center may be able to recover deposits they made before the Northern Virginia housing market collapsed, according to a ruling Tuesday by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A 4th Circuit panel reversed U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of Alexandria, who had interpreted the Interstate Land Sales ...
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