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

Condo buyers in a Northern Virginia complex can pursue their claims for rescission of their sales contracts and deposit refunds, the 4th Circuit says, as it reverses a district court’s dismissal of plaintiffs’ claims under the Interstate Land Sales Full ...

Tagged with: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Paul V. Niemeyer Real Estate

A couple whose romantic relationship ended cannot partition the home they shared with their child, as the single-family home in a subdivision does not lend itself to partition, and the Hanover Circuit Court gives petitioner the home and orders her ...

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In this boundary dispute between two sisters whose property shared a common grantor and mid-creek boundary line with property plaintiff purchased at auction, a Henry County Circuit Court says plaintiff purchaser has a right to use the 30-foot road to ...

Tagged with: Henry County Circuit Court Judge G. Carter Greer Real Estate Virginia Circuit Courts

A Fairfax Circuit judge has ordered a Northern Virginia lawyer and his client to pay the attorneys’ fees and costs of two defendants they sued in a residential real estate tangle. Total price tag: About $272,000. Judge Jonathan C. Thacher ...

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A Fairfax County circuit judge has ordered both a lawyer and his real estate broker client to pay $272,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs, finding they pursued “vindictive” litigation all the way to trial without any possible chance of success. ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Jonathan C. Thacher Lawyer Discipline Real Estate

Wells Fargo, who was defrauded by a mortgage originator who sold it “original” mortgages, cannot collect from defendant title insurance company on Wells Fargo’s claims under CRESPA, or under theories that a party acting at settlement had actual or apparent ...

Tagged with: Judge Claude M. Hilton Real Estate U.S. District Court - Eastern District

Where a homeowner refinanced his property through two loans from SunTrust, with a title insurance policy from First Alliance Title, underwritten by First American Title Insurance, but First Alliance’s president diverted funds SunTrust designated to pay off the original mortgage, ...

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