A real estate agent won reversal of administrative sanctions for his failure to disclose a broker relationship that did not exist, in Williams v. Commonwealth of Va., Real Estate Board (VLW 010-7-355), decided Sept. 14 by the Virginia Court of ...

Tagged with: Contract Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr. Real Estate Virginia Court of Appeals News

A homeowner in default on two notes executed to refinance her mortgage cannot undo foreclosure on her home with her claims that noteholders cannot enforce these instruments; the so-called “split” of the deeds of trust from the promissory notes does ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Norfolk U.S. District Court says the federal government may enforce liens against a delinquent taxpayer’s home and foreclose upon the home to collect $179,727.84 for unpaid income tax assessments, penalties and statutory interest. In 2004, defendant transferred his interest ...

Tagged with: Judge Mark Davis Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A decades-old law designed to prevent fraud in sales of Florida swampland has been used by a Northern Virginia couple to get out of their $1.6-million purchase of an undeveloped lot in a luxury gated club development. U.S. District Judge ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge James C. Cacheris Real Estate

A law firm trying to collect dues for a homeowners association may face trial after an Alexandria federal judge refused to dismiss claims under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Homeowner Maria Sunga alleged that Rees Broome PC made “false ...

Tagged with: Consumer Protection Federal Courts Judge James C. Cacheris Law Firms Real Estate

The city’s tax assessment of a renovated warehouse converted to a residential apartment complex is not legally erroneous for the tax years 2005 through 2007, and the Richmond Circuit Court denies the taxpayer’s petition for correction of an erroneous assessment. ...

Tagged with: Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr. Real Estate Richmond Circuit Court Virginia Circuit Courts

Plaintiffs who admit they stopped paying the refinanced mortgage on their home cannot avoid foreclosure with their challenge to the “splitting, selling, trading and insuring” of parts of the Note on the secondary market, or claim that defendant mortgagor or ...

Tagged with: Judge Liam O'Grady Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

A Fairfax Circuit Court dismisses a homeowner’s suit against a Falls Church homeowners’ association alleging slander of title and tortious interference with contract allegedly arising from statements in the association’s Disclosure Property questioning placement of a fence. Plaintiff alleges counts ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge David Stanford Schell Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

With thousands of homeowners associations in Virginia, HOA horror stories are not hard to come by. When an association board squares off against an owner, the horror stories come from both sides. Then the insurance carrier gets involved. One story ...

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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 ...

Tagged with: Federal Courts Judge Paul V. Niemeyer Real Estate