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1. Liquidated Damages are Unenforceable If They Bear No Reasonable Relationship to the Range of Actual Damages the Parties Anticipated Would Flow from a Breach In the case of Graylee v Castro, [...]

1. Foreclosure Sale Error by Purchaser Costs Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars In the case of Matson v S.B.S. Trust Deed Network (2020) 46 CA5th 33, the Court of Appeal affired the trial court’s [...]

1. Supreme Court Considers Changing Balance of Power Between Borrowers and Lenders in an Important Foreclosure Case In the case of Black Sky Capital LLC v. Cobb, S243294, the California Supreme [...]

1. New Real Property Disclosure Requirements Existing law provides that transferor must deliver to the respective transferee a real estate disclosure form and the transferee has certain time in [...]

Simultaneously Recorded Trust Deeds Order of Recording Do Not Determine Their Priority. In the case of MTC Fin., Inc. vs. Nationstar Mortage, [2018] 19 Cal App 5th 811. The appellate court [...]

Long Beach Jury Awards 30.5 Million Dollars In a Foreclosure Abuse Case Against Lender. In the case of Behm vs. Cervenka, Ms. Behm purchased a 7,400 sqft Victorian era home in Los Angeles for [...]

New Real Estate Laws Passed In 2016 Advertising Requirements Using “Team Names”. Business and Professions Code Sections 10159.5 through 10159.7 governs the use of a “team name” and a fictitious [...]