A husband could unilaterally transfer his ownership interest as a tenant by the entirety in a Bluefield home to wife to create a fee simple estate in wife, which she in turn could transfer to a trust; the Supreme Court ...

Tagged with: Justice Lawrence L. Koontz Jr. Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

A Norfolk Circuit Court says plaintiff purchaser of a single-family residence may sue defendant real estate agent for the seller and her own buyer’s agent for failure to disclose known material adverse facts pertaining to the physical condition of the ...

Tagged with: Judge Mary Jane Hall Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

A homebuyer who discovered rotten support beams and a cracked foundation in her house four years after purchase can sue her own agent and the seller’s agent under the Real Estate Brokers Act, a Norfolk Circuit judge has ruled. The ...

Tagged with: Judge Mary Jane Hall Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate

A title insurance company’s suit to collect payment on a CRESPA bond after the closing agent  failed to see to the closing of a credit line and release of a credit line deed of trust when the borrowers refinanced their ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Real Estate U.S. District Court - Western District

Plaintiff LLC has stated claims that defendants fraudulently induced it to perform a real estate purchase agreement by false representations regarding the nature and amount of real estate taxes and special assessments, and acted to divert plaintiff’s attention from the ...

Tagged with: Hanover County Circuit Court Judge J. Overton Harris Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

In this fourth complaint filed by a borrower seeking to halt foreclosure on his home, plaintiff presents a computer print-out purporting to show he paid his mortgage loan in full, which defendant bank disputes, and the Danville U.S. District Court ...

Tagged with: Judge Michael F. Urbanski Real Estate U.S. District Court - Western District

In this dispute over defendant landowners’ construction of a dock on their Smith Mountain Lake property that plaintiff power company says does not conform to the power company’s Flowage Easement and its federal license, a Roanoke U.S. District Court says ...

Tagged with: Judge Norman K. Moon Real Estate U.S. District Court - Western District

Plaintiffs who lost their home to foreclosure state claims for actual and constructive fraud based on allegations that two representatives of defendant loan servicer Ocwen told them a foreclosure sale scheduled for the following day would be placed on hold ...

Tagged with: Judge James R. Spencer Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Norfolk U.S. District Court says plaintiffs who lost their home to foreclosure have stated a breach of contract claim against defendants based on an alleged misstatement of the amount due on their defaulted loan that included the next month’s ...

Tagged with: Judge Raymond A. Jackson Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A trial court did not err in granting a demurrer to appellant borrowers’ suit seeking to rescind a foreclosure sale of their home, the Virginia Supreme Court holds; appellants may have alleged a breach of contract in the lender’s failure ...

Tagged with: Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia