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Real Property, Roger Bernhardt
Real Property, Roger Bernhardt
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"Real property" as a topic exists only in a law professor's mind. Practicing attorneys may specialize in representing title companies or developers or brokers or any of the other entrepreneurs who make their living in one way or another from real estate, but none of these lawyers would claim that his proper field of expertise is real estate per se. Consequently, any article on developments in the field of real property law really becomes a series of separate articles on developments in some real estate specialties, rather than a cohesive whole. I have tried, here, to cover the three specialties …
Transferring North Carolina Real Estate Part Ii--Roles, Ethics, And Reform, Dale A. Whitman
Transferring North Carolina Real Estate Part Ii--Roles, Ethics, And Reform, Dale A. Whitman
Faculty Publications
As we have seen in Part I of this article, prevailing practices in the transfer of North Carolina real estate are seriously deficient in their substantive protection of the buyer. Part II will explore whether these practices also violate the norms of professional conduct and will conclude with some proposals which should ameliorate both the substantive and ethical deficiencies which face the real estate buyer. Before doing so, however, it seems appropriate to discuss in some detail the roles of various actors in the typical transaction and the types of persons who fill those roles.
Transferring North Carolina Real Estate Part I--How The Present System Functions, Dale A. Whitman
Transferring North Carolina Real Estate Part I--How The Present System Functions, Dale A. Whitman
Faculty Publications
As we have seen in Part I of this article, prevailing practices in the transfer of North Carolina real estate are seriously deficient in their substantive protection of the buyer. Part II will explore whether these practices also violate the norms of professional conduct and will conclude with some proposals which should ameliorate both the substantive and ethical deficiencies which face the real estate buyer. Before doing so, however, it seems appropriate to discuss in some detail the roles of various actors in the typical transaction and the types of persons who fill those roles.