Martin J Doyle

July 23, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

On June 30, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted, in part, summary judgment to the Montgomery County recorder of deeds in its action against Merscorp Inc. and Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. (MERS) for MERS's failure to record mortgage loan assignments.

By Martin J. Doyle and Igor Pleskov

6 minute read

May 28, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

The retail sector was one of the hardest-hit industries during the recent recession. The downturn, along with transformative technological advances and growing Internet retail, has led to a dramatic shift in the traditional shopping-center business model. Perhaps the new normal, these changes have rendered certain language in older leases as barriers to attracting desirable new tenants.

By Martin J. Doyle and Igor Pleskov

6 minute read

March 26, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

On Dec. 5, 2013, Philadelphia City Council passed Bill No. 130770 prohibiting medical, dental and health practitioners in the Sixth and Tenth councilmanic districts of Northeast Philadelphia.

By Martin J. Doyle and Igor Pleskov

5 minute read

January 22, 2014 | The Legal Intelligencer

Earlier this month, the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue released updated common level ratio factors to be used in calculating realty transfer tax for certain real estate transactions.

By Martin J. Doyle and Igor Pleskov

5 minute read

December 26, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

On Dec. 12, Philadelphia City Council approved Bill No. 130156-A to establish a land bank for the city of Philadelphia.

By Martin J. Doyle and Igor Pleskov

5 minute read

August 17, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

On July 17, the Commonwealth Court issued an opinion in Appeal of the City of Pittsburgh, which ruled that a purely public charity that acquired vacant lands in what it viewed as a furtherance of its mission, but without an intention to physically use or occupy the properties in either the short- or long-term, was not entitled to exemption from real estate taxes on those properties.

By Martin J. Doyle

9 minute read

March 13, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

In an opinion filed on Feb. 13, the Pennsylvania Superior Court strictly upheld the general commonwealth rule that a purchaser of real property is not bound to look for judgments beyond the local judgment index. The decision is also noteworthy because it is the first appellate decision to apply Rule 3023 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure to determine the priority of liens arising from confession of judgment.

By Martin J. Doyle and Ross E. Bruch

11 minute read

October 19, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

The New Jersey Superior Court case of St. George's Dragons L.P. v. Newport Real Estate Group illustrates a number of interesting and important points about the drafting and interpretation of right-of-first-refusal provisions.

By Martin J. Doyle

12 minute read

August 01, 2011 | The Legal Intelligencer

Clients like letters of intent. Letters of intent can be developed easily and shipped out quickly to get a deal rolling. They can lay out basic terms of a deal in laymen's language, and in just a few pages, so the parties can decide if they are generally on the same page. They can even be used to create certain obligations, say a no-shop provision, giving a buyer some comfort that it will not have the rug pulled out from under it before it can cut a deal.

By Martin J. Doyle and Bruce P. Bowen

12 minute read

February 25, 2008 | Law.com

Let's say that you represent the owner of a strip shopping center in Northeast Philadelphia. The largest tenant in the center, a chain drug store, has shut down its operations at the center and opened a new store at a more prominent location nearby.

By David M. Felder and Martin J. Doyle

11 minute read