The one-volume LexisNexis AnswerGuide New York Real Property provides New York-specific answers to questions arising around real estate transactions. It offers guidance for counsel representing purchasers, sellers, landlords, and tenants and outlines methods for obtaining financing for both residential and commercial properties. Topically organized, this portable tool provides quick, on-point answers in the planning phase, at the office, when dealing with lenders, during closing, or in court.
It includes 65 detailed, task-oriented checklists, over 400 practice pointers (Warning, Strategic Point, Exception, Timing) to ensure best practices and avoidance of potential practice pitfalls, and Legal Topic paths to recent on-point forms, cases, and analysis.
Authored by Karl B. Holtzschue, of New York City, with more than 30 years' experience practicing New York real property law in all aspects of real estate law and all types of realty transactions, with upstate commentary provided by John E. Blyth, Esq., LexisNexis AnswerGuide New York Real Property offers valuable insights for dedicated attorneys, civil practitioners, new associates, and paralegals.
Chapter Introduction HOW TO USE LEXIS.COM WITH THIS PUBLICATION
Chapter 1 PREPARING TO SELL REAL ESTATE
Chapter 2 PREPARING TO PURCHASE REAL ESTATE
Chapter 3 DRAFTING AND NEGOTIATING CONTRACT OF SALE: SELLER AND PURCHASER
Chapter 4 PREPARING FOR CLOSING: SELLER'S TASKS
Chapter 5 CONDUCTING CLOSING: SELLER'S TASKS
Chapter 6 PREPARING FOR CLOSING: PURCHASER'S TASKS
Chapter 7 CONDUCTING CLOSING: PURCHASER'S TASKS
Chapter 8 OBTAINING FINANCING FOR HOME PURCHASE: FINDING BEST SOURCE
Chapter 9 HOME MORTGAGE APPLICATION, COMMITMENT, AND CLOSING
Chapter 10 POST CLOSING MATTERS: HOME LOANS
Chapter 11 OBTAINING COMMERCIAL FINANCING: FINDING BEST SOURCE
Chapter 12 COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE APPLICATION, COMMITMENT, AND CLOSING
Chapter 13 EQUITY FINANCING
Chapter 14 POST CLOSING MATTERS: COMMERCIAL LOANS
Chapter 15 PREPARING TO LEASE RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE
Chapter 16 LEASING RESIDENTIAL APARTMENT OR HOME
Chapter 17 DEALING WITH ISSUES ARISING DURING RESIDENTIAL LEASE TERM
Chapter 18 PREPARING TO LEASE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
Chapter 19 DRAFTING AND NEGOTIATING COMMERCIAL LEASE
Chapter 20 DEALING WITH ISSUES ARISING DURING COMMERCIAL LEASE TERM
APPENDIX A GUIDE TO USING STANDARD PRINTED FORMS
John E. Blyth, Esq.
John E. Blyth has practiced law in Rochester, New York for more than forty years. He earned his A.B. from Colgate University, his LL.B. from New York University School of Law, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence (Doctor of Laws) in German from Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. He is a Past Chair of the Real Property Law Section and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Law and Practice Section, both of the New York State Bar Association. He is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL) and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School.
Karl B. Holtzschue, Esq.
Mr. Holtzschue graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1959. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1959 to 1962, and graduated from Columbia University School of Law in 1966. From 1966 to 1988, he was an associate and a partner at the law firm of Webster & Sheffield. From 1988 to 1990 he was a partner and head of the real estate department in the New York office of the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. As of January 31, 1990, Mr. Holtzschue resigned from O'Melveny & Myers to devote his efforts to writing and teaching law and serving as an expert witness. He is currently teaching as an Adjunct Professor at the Fordham University School of Law.
Mr. Holtzschue has concentrated in all aspects of real estate law and all types of realty transactions including public and non-profit developments. These affiliations have included the Bedford-Stuyvesant Redevelopment Corporation, the United Nations Development Corporation, the Museum of Modern Art, the South Street Seaport, the Children's Aid Society, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the United States Postal Service and Battery Park City. He has also represented institutional lenders in construction lending, joint ventures and workouts.
From 1987 to 1990, Mr. Holtzschue served a three-year term as chair of the Committee on Real Property Law of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, during which time its ``Mortgage Loan Opinion Report'' was completed. In 1998, he became a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Section of the New York Bar Association and has written and lectured extensively. He is the author of Real Estate Transactions: Purchase and Sale of Real Property (Matthew Bender) and Holtzschue on Real Estate Contracts (PLI) and is the Editor of the NYSBA's Residential Real Estate Forms on HotDocs (with Matthew Bender). He is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and is listed in ``Who's Who in America'' and other similar publicatons.
In addition, Mr. Holtzschue has published articles in the American Bar Association's Real Property, Probate and Trust Journal, in the New York Law Journal and in Real Estate Review. He created several model real estate contracts printed as forms by Julius Blumberg, Inc. He has also lectured on real estate matters for the Real Estate Institute of New York University, the Title Guarantee Company, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers Association and the New York State and American Bar Associations.
Mr. Holtzschue is accredited to provide Continuing Legal Education courses (ethics in real estate transactions, caveat emptor, mortgage contingencies, new developments in real estate transactions).