THE BOOK: Miller & Starr, California Real Estate
Editor-in-Chief of Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3rd, 2008 – 2014
Editor-in-Chief of Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, 2015 - present
Author or Co-Author of Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th chapters:
- Chapter 1. Contract Law Applicable to Real Estate Transactions
- Chapter 2. Specific Contract Provisions and Disclosure Requirements
- Chapter 3. Agency and Broker Liability
- Chapter 4. Regulation and Licensing of Real Estate Professionals and Appraisers
- Chapter 5. Real Estate Brokers' Contracts and Compensation
- Chapter 7. Title Insurance
- Chapter 8. Deeds and Descriptions
- Chapter 9. Transferable Property Interests; Fixtures
- Chapter 10. Recording and Priorities
- Chapter 12. Estates; Restraints; Perpetuities
- Chapter 13. Deeds of Trust and Mortgages
- Chapter 14. Guarantors and Sureties in Real Property Secured Transactions
- Chapter 16. Covenants, Equitable Servitudes, and Other Restrictions
- Chapter 21. Land Use, Planning and Zoning Regulation
- Chapter 22. Dedication
- Chapter 25. Building Codes, Permits, and Enforcement
- Chapter 27. Mobilehomes, Manufactured Housing and Mobilehome Parks
- Chapter 28. Common Interest Developments
- Chapter 29. Subdivision Offerings, Sales, and Leasing
- Chapter 34. Landlord and Tenant
- Chapter 35. Lenders' Liability
- Chapter 36. Regulation of Residential Mortgage Loan Origination and Servicing
- Chapter 37. The Law of Usury
- Chapter 43. Homesteads and the Automatic Residential Exemption
Periodicals
“A New Class Of Redemptioners: The Enhanced Position Of Tenants, Prospective Owner Occupants, And Nonprofit Or Governmental Entities In Residential Foreclosures.” Miller & Starr, California Newsalert, Volume 33, Number 5, May 2023
“No Relief for the Inn: Business Income Losses Due to Government’s COVID-19 Shutdown Orders Are Not “Physically Caused” by COVID-19 So Not Covered by Standard Commercial Property Insurance,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, January 2022
“The New Provisions for Multiple-Unit Housing in Single Family Zones: The “End of Single Family Housing” or Just Another Minimally Effective But Overcomplicated Effort To Address the Deficit of Affordable Housing in California?” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, November 2021
“Keep Out and Stay Out: The Cedar Point Decision and the Landowner’s Sine Qua Non Right to Exclude Others (Maybe Sometimes Even a Government Official),” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Volume 32, No. 1, September 2021
“Senate Bill 7: A “Streamlined” CEQA Process for Housing Projects or Just Another Regulatory Wrinkle?” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, July 2021
“The CDC’s National Covid-19 Eviction Moratorium And Its Effects On California Landlords And Tenants,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, May 2021
“Just Compensation Or Just More Complications? The New Covid-19 Relief Bill (Sb 91) And Its Implications For Residential Landlords And Their Tenants,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, March 2021
“No Limitations And No Escape: The Long Tail Of Real Property Tax Liability Resulting From Entity Interest Transfers In California,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, December 2020
“A Whole New Ballgame: What The Housing Crisis Act Of 2019 (Sb 330) Means For Housing Developers, Local Governments, And Go-Slow Opposition To New Residential Development Projects In California,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, September 2020
“After Taniguchi: The Future Of Upset Clauses In Workout Transactions,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Volume 30, No. 4, March 2020
“California’s New Statewide “Just Cause Eviction” And “Anti-Rent Gouging” Law,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, January 2020
“Under Black Sky: What Defenses Remain Against the Holder of a Junior Deed of Trust Who First Forecloses Its Own Senior Deed of Trust?” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, July 2019
“Obfuscation Masquerading As Legislation: Confusion Rules In California’s Residential Disclosure And Tenant Abandonment Statutes,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, May 2019
“Not So Fast, Counselor: When Attorney’s Fees May Be Recovered In Connection With A Real Property Secured Debt,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, November 2018
“More of Something: The California Legislature’s Effort to Increase the Supply of Affordable Housing,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, July 2018
“No Rights At the End of the Tunnel: Invalid Building Permits and the Doctrines of Vested Rights and Equitable Estoppel (Attard v. Board of Supervisors),” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Volume 28, No. 2, November 2017
"No Boundaries: The Erosion of Private Property Rights by Judicial Deference to Regulatory Overreach,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Volume 28, No. 1, September 2017
“Should Phillippe v. Shapell be Reconsidered? Written Brokerage Agreements and the Statute of Frauds in the 21st Century,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, May 2017
“Going for the Capillaries: Legislative Tinkering with California Planning and Zoning Laws to Address the Housing Shortage,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Vol. 27, No. 4, March 2017
“Decision Shakes Up Dual Agency Rules for Brokerages,” Daily Journal, December 7, 2016
“Here We Go Again: The Vicissitudes Of Public Policy And Guarantor Liability For California Real Estate Loans”, Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Vol. 26, September 2015
“All Shook Up: California’s Fragmented Earthquake Safety, Seismic Safety Upgrade and Seismic Hazard Disclosure Laws,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Vol. 25, November 2014
“’Good’ Bad Faith vs. ‘Bad’ Bad Faith: Equitable Principles and the Doctrines of Adverse Possession and Prescription,” Miller & Starr, Real Estate California Newsalert, Vol. 24, co-authored with W. Scott Shepard, January 2014
“Show Me Your Papers: Sales and Assignments of Secured Real Estate Loans and the California Foreclosure Process (Part II),” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Vol. 22, March 2012
“Show Me Your Papers: Sales and Assignments of Secured Real Estate Loans and the California Foreclosure Process (Part I),” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Vol. 22, January 2012
“Residential Mortgage Relief for Homeowners and Tenants: State and Federal Legislative Responses to the Foreclosure Crisis,” California Real Property Journal, Vol. 28, 2010
“Loan Carve-Outs for Nonrecourse Financing,” Commercial Mortgage Insight, July 2009
“Leasehold Financing Demands Particular Protective Provisions,” Commercial Mortgage Insight, January 2009
“The Perata Foreclosure Bill (SB 1137): New Rights for Defaulting Borrowers and Tenants; New Complications for Foreclosing Lenders,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Vol. 19, September 2008
“Assessment Liens and Foreclosure in Common Interest Developments,” Miller & Starr, California Real Estate Newsalert, Vol. 16, January 2006
“Escrow Holder Does Not Owe Duty to Third Parties,” San Francisco Daily Journal, May 2002
“Fee Simple: Lenders Faced with Stop Notice May Retain Accrued Interest and Charges,” Los Angeles Daily Journal, June 1999
“Due-on-Sale Clauses under the Garn-St. Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982,” University of San Francisco Law Review, Vol. 17, 1982-1983
“Agricultural District and Zoning: A State-Local Approach to a National Problem,” Ecology Law Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 4, March 1980