Friday
May 24, 2013

Law & Ethics: In Court Articles

  • Mon, 05/01/2006

    An appeals court has upheld a ruling that a brokerage and a salesperson weren’t guilty of concealment or negligence in failing to disclose that a house was a modified mobile home.

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  • Sat, 04/01/2006

    In a victory for the MLS membership model, a federal court in Kentucky has ruled that an MLS can limit participation to members of the local REALTOR® association.

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  • Sat, 04/01/2006

    A California court has ruled that a broker who was purchasing a property for personal investment wasn’t entitled to a commission as damages when the seller canceled the contract.

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  • Wed, 02/01/2006

    The Third Circuit has become the third federal appeals court to hold that a lender could violate the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act by charging consumers higher fees for a service than it paid a third-party company when the lender provided no additional service.

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  • Wed, 02/01/2006

    An Ohio appeals court determined that sellers hadn’t committed fraud by failing to reveal the possibility of a future assessment.

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  • Sun, 01/01/2006

    A federal court has upheld an MLS’s requirement that only members of a REALTOR® association can participate in the MLS.

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  • Thu, 12/01/2005

    A California appellate court ruled that the sellers of a home with a history of flooding problems did not misrepresent and conceal material facts to the buyer about the history of flooding on the property even though they didn’t mention every time the house had flooded.

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  • Tue, 11/01/2005

    A New Jersey appellate court has ruled that a real estate salesperson is not liable for a contractor’s failure to find problems with a property's septic system, even though the contractor was chosen by the salesperson.

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  • Tue, 11/01/2005

    A Georgia appellate court has determined that a buyer’s broker and her company weren’t liable for failing to disclose a gas leak in a house when they were unaware of the problem.

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  • Sat, 10/01/2005

    New Hampshire's highest court has ruled that a college student could collect damages from a landlord who allegedly misrepresented the number of bedrooms the student would be leasing from him.

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