Real Estate Law Archives

Two Partners of TV’s ‘Fixer Upper’ Claim Third Partner Used Inside Information to Cheat Them

by FOCUS LAW | Mar 1, 2018 | Real Estate Law

If you are a partner in a business you have a fiduciary relationship with your fellow partners. That relationship means that partners owe each other fiduciary duties which a partner must abide by when acting on behalf of a business. Two former partners of a Texas real...

Los Angeles’ China Fueled Development Boom

by FOCUS LAW | Apr 25, 2017 | Real Estate Law

One of Lost Angeles’ biggest real estate developments is small potatoes compared to other projects the developer has worked on in China. Metropolis, a $1 billion mixed-use project next to the 110 Freeway, is unprecedented for L.A. but familiar to Winston Yan. He’s an...

A Partition Referee Can Help Make Breaking Up Real Estate Ownership Easier

by FOCUS LAW | Sep 27, 2016 | Real Estate Law

If you are a part owner of a piece of real estate you may have disagreements with your fellow owners about what should be done with it. If these disagreements are serious enough the best option may be to sell the property and the owners can go their separate ways. One...

Orange County’s Housing Market Continues to Warm Up

by FOCUS LAW | Sep 20, 2016 | Real Estate Law

The Orange County housing market continues to do well for sellers, buyers not so much. The Orange County Register reports that for the 22 business days ending February 9 the county’s median selling residential home price was $620,000, an increase of 8.8% compared to...

Three Defendants Trying to Stay Out of More Trouble in Alleged EB-5 investment Scam

by FOCUS LAW | Sep 3, 2016 | Real Estate Law

Three corporate defendants found themselves in a situation where no one wants to be: trying to convince a federal judge they shouldn’t be held in contempt. The August 30 hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California is the latest chapter in...

Ripped Off Investors in EB-5 Fraud Case Can Try to Recover Lost Assets

by FOCUS LAW | Sep 1, 2016 | Partnership Law, Real Estate Law

An ongoing fraud case involving an apparently fake plan to build cancer treatment center located in Montebello, funded by Chinese nationals seeking to take advantage of the EB-5 visa program, is an example of investment fraud. Normally fleeced investors lose money....