A property owner who alleges her neighbors have caused rain and storm run-off from their adjacent lots to drain onto her property, causing standing pools of water and mosquito breeding, has failed to state claims for trespass, nuisance or negligence ...

Tagged with: Justice Cleo E. Powell Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

A 1936 deed distributing a dissolved corporation’s large tract of real estate in the White Marsh Beach area of Hampton used metes and bounds and stationary markers to identify the location of an express easement as running “Along Present Mean ...

Tagged with: Justice S. Bernard Goodwyn Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

A wife who obtained a deed of trust pursuant to court order to secure payment of husband’s obligations to her under their earlier divorce decree is a lien creditor under Virginia law, and a bank deed of trust recorded outside ...

Tagged with: Justice William C. Mims Real Estate Supreme Court of Virginia

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