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  • Custodio v. Mabrantes, LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-05-31
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 002094-CV-2022

    The court conducted a non-jury trial in plaintiff homebuyer's action for fraud and related claims against defendant sellers. The court found in favor of plaintiff, holding that defendants, an experienced home renovation contractor and his company, violated the Real Estate Seller Disclosure Law and committed common law fraud by intentionally failing to disclose that the renovated home was previously uninhabitable due to widespread contamination from animal waste.

  • Lisowitz v. Graboyes

    Publication Date: 2024-05-31
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Roberts
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 3004 EDA 2023

    The court recommended that the Superior Court affirm its order denying defendant's emergency petition for a stay of a writ of ejectment emergency.

  • Steinbeiser v. Wertz

    Publication Date: 2024-05-31
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 823 WDA 2023

    Appellants waived defense that statute precluded appellees from obtaining relief by not raising the statute in an answer and new matter. Judgment of the trial court affirmed.

  • Lasak v. Lasak

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Zulick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 6896 CV 2023

    The court granted defendants' demurrer to deed reformation for mutual mistake.

  • Cheunes v. Lycoming County Tax Claim Bureau

    Publication Date: 2024-05-24
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Carlucci
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 2023-01266

    The court granted a petition to set aside an upset tax sale of 4 acres of vacant land because plaintiff never saw the notice of tax sale posted at the premises and never received any written notice of tax sale.

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  • Xie v. Xie

    Publication Date: 2024-05-10
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 004957-CV-2015

    Plaintiff sought partition of real property that she owned with defendant. The court ordered the property partitioned, calculated the amounts owed between the parties in light of credits based upon amounts paid and the property's fair rental value for pertinent periods, and set out proper disbursement amounts for any sale proceeds, depending upon the parties' intentions for the property's final disposition.

  • MJ Byeich Prop., LLC v. JJL Normandy Prop., LLC

    Publication Date: 2024-05-10
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Bucks County
    Judge: Judge Mellon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 2021-02831

    The court's §1925(a) opinion urged affirmance of its Oct. 11, 2023 order denying post-trial relief and its October 17, 2023 order and judgment in favor of plaintiff whose vacant commercial lot was subject to a deliberate water intrusion by defendants from their adjacent property which was uphill to the plaintiff's property.

  • Griffin v. Mathis

    Publication Date: 2024-05-10
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Fox
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 190 EDA 2024

    The court urged the Superior Court to affirm its order that ruled on exceptions to a Master's Report that determined the fair market value of a residence owned by the parties and other issues that were not appealable as a final order.

  • Maple v. Moses

    Publication Date: 2024-05-03
    Practice Area: Real Estate
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    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Higgins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 3351 CV 2022

    The court denied plaintiff's motion to amend the court's order appointing a master to oversee the private sale of a lot owned by the unmarried parties as tenants in common and encumbered by a mortgage after plaintiff filed a complaint for partition of the real estate. Pa. R. Civ. P 1563 provides that property not capable of division shall be offered for private sale confined to the parties.

  • Willis v. Schuylkill County Tax Claim Bureau

    Publication Date: 2024-04-19
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Ceisler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:
    Case Number: 229 C.D. 2023

    The court reversed the trial court's order overruling appellants' objections to the upset sale of real property and found that appellee Schuylkill County Tax Claim Bureau failed to comply with the notice requirements in §602 of the Real Estate Tax Sale Law because appellee failed to comply with §607.1(a) of RETSL that required appellee to make additional efforts to notify appellants of the upset sale beyond those in §602.