Suburban West REALTORS® Association
Land Use and Title Issues Pertaining to Commercial Real Estate
Speaker:
Daniel B. Markind, Shareholder, Real Estate and Corporate Departments, Flaster Greenberg PC
Date & Time:
March 23, 2020
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location:
Suburban West REALTORS® Association
Malvern, PA
Overview & Agenda:
Land Use Issues
Objectives:
- Understand the structure and basis for Real Estate land use law in Pennsylvania
- Learn the difference between terms and concepts used in land use and zoning
- Learn how issues relating to land use can be handled in marketing a property and in negotiating agreement of sale
- Learn the limits of zoning laws – what a municipality can’t do
- Be aware of mistakes real estate purchasers and investors make
- Legal basis for land use and zoning laws.
- What is the difference between zoning in Philadelphia and zoning in the rest of the Commonwealth
- What do land use terms mean?
- How do land use issues affect the marketing of Property?
- How to handle negotiating Agreements of Sale from the Buyer’s and Seller’s perspective.
- What types of zoning laws are not permissible?
- What are some important mistakes buyers and sellers make?
Commercial Title Insurance Issues
Objectives:
- Understand what title insurance policies are
- Learn how to read and understand title insurance commitments and what key points to look for
- Understand what title insurance does and does not cover
- Learn what type of title endorsements are available and what their affect is
- Be aware of mistakes real estate purchasers and investors make
- What title insurance is and is not.
- Differences between a title insurance commitment and a title insurance policy, and what are title policy markups?
- What types of claims are covered by title insurance?
- What types of title insurance endorsements are available and what are their effects?
- Common mistakes real estate purchasers and investors make concerning title insurance.
