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A landowner desiring to enter into a license agreement for the use of real property must take care to ensure that the license agreement does not contain terms that inadvertently waive the landowner’s right to recover the property through the summary proceeding of an unlawful detainer action. 

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) has long required a full analysis of project's potential adverse effects on the environment. 

The Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act”) imposes a wide-ranging requirement for many business entities to file personal information about their respective owners and control persons with a federal regulatory agency and to keep the information updated over time. 

As residential mortgage interest rates have nearly tripled over the past 18 months, some participants in the real estate industry have been considering ways to market and sell real estate by keeping low-rate existing mortgages in place while transferring ownership of the property to a new owner or buyer.

The letter of credit has evolved from being a tool to facilitate international commercial transactions involving the sale of goods to a preferred form of collateral in a range of commercial transactions.

Developers in the State of California are well aware of the Subdivision Map Act, the Subdivided Lands Act, and the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development Act, all of which govern the subdivision and sale of real property in California—but how familiar are developers with the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act (ILSA)?