Building the Modern Mortgage

This topic will prepare real estate attorneys to meet their ethical obligations in the modern world. What are the ethical boundaries for a real estate attorney in negotiating a transaction? What steps should be taken to safeguard our client's information in our ever more security and privacy conscious world? How can a real estate attorney effectively provide counsel to a budding marijuana industry client? We will explore these topics and dissect the effects of technology on our obligations to practice law ethically. After this information, attorneys should feel well equipped to continue ethically practicing where real estate and the law intersect.

Join Chief Economist Ali Wolf and Senior Managing Principal Tim Sullivan for a national housing market update, discussing the latest developments of economic trends and impacts on the housing market.

Commercial landlords still coping with past-due rents and soaring vacancies are aggressively seeking ways to protect their financial interests and minimize loss. Meanwhile, distressed tenants are turning to the Bankruptcy Code to safeguard their assets from creditors. The Bankruptcy Code offers protections to both commercial landlords and tenants but raises a number of complex legal issues. Commercial landlords must develop strategies to anticipate and protect against the fallout from tenant bankruptcy.

Most bankers acknowledge that construction lending is riskier than other types of commercial lending. Therefore, lenders must learn how to evaluate a developer’s ability to repay the construction loan and apply the appropriate underwriting of the construction project to ensure the structure of the loan results in it being repaid in full, on time, and as agreed.