PETERSBURG—An analysis of Fort Lee’s expansion and its impact on the lodging business in the Petersburg area concludes a glut of planned hotels could harm the existing hotel industry. The independent analysis released Wednesday notes that 14 hotels totaling 1,123 ...

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A property owner and business operator on the property state a claim for inverse condemnation under the Virginia Constitution for the city of Norfolk’s four-month closure of Duke Street for construction or repair of public utilities that prevented reasonable access ...

Tagged with: Judge Karen J. Burrell Norfolk Circuit Court Real Estate

In this 2007 decision on a matter of first impression, a Virginia Beach Circuit Court rejects a trustee’s 5 percent commission of $20,450 for sale of a property at foreclosure, and instead authorizes a “reasonable” fee of $9,180. Wells Fargo ...

Tagged with: Judge H. Thomas Padrick Jr. Real Estate Virginia Beach Circuit Court

Petitioner’s objection to the commission taken by the trustee in the amount of $16,150 is sustained by a Middlesex County Circuit Court and the trustee is hereby allowed a commission of $10,100 and is ordered to make a check payable ...

Tagged with: Judge R. Bruce Long Middlesex County Circuit Court Real Estate

A decision by a Middlesex County judge highlights an open question in the business of foreclosure in Virginia: How much can a foreclosure trustee charge as a commission? For 11 years, the law has required only a “reasonable commission” for ...

Tagged with: Judge R. Bruce Long Middlesex County Circuit Court Real Estate

Although defendant property owners may have an easement to dig a canal, current environmental regulations would not allow a canal, but a Fairfax Circuit Court says the rule of “use for all reasonable purposes” of the right-of-way would allow construction ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Robert J. Smith Real Estate

A Fairfax Circuit Court says a homeowners’ association wins its suit for dues on defendant’s former home, that he accrued after he petitioned for chapter 7 bankruptcy relief but before the home was sold by foreclosure at public auction, during ...

Tagged with: Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Stanley P. Klein Real Estate

Although Pannell, one tenant in common, of a three-address parcel in Roanoke City contracted to sell his interest to his lessee Ibrahim and Pannell and his co-tenant Banks both contracted with Banks’ lessee Albosaber to sell the entire property, a ...

Tagged with: Judge Charles N. Dorsey Real Estate Roanoke Circuit Court

A property owners association may be powerless to collect assessments from community landowners to pay for road improvements, but at least it’s not liable for racketeering in the attempt, according to a ruling yesterday from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court ...

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A dissenting sibling in a dispute over the disposition of a family farm must share in the costs of a subdivision plan when the plan helped to increase the value of the property, the Supreme Court of Virginia holds. As ...

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