Sentences with phrase «where real estate fraud»

Haslett says transactions where real estate fraud is suspected by the underwriters constitute less than one per cent of FCT's overall business.

Not exact matches

The author also does a fantastic job of describing the once thriving City of Detroit where the Turner children were raised, and telling us the factors that led to it's destruction: Black flight, crack, gun violence, and real estate fraud - burning property for profit, squatters, and fraudulent short sales which led to the bottoming out of property values.

It's a new type of fraud aimed at lawyers where the hackers intercept emails between real estate attorneys and their clients and then use the information obtained from the emails to steal closing funds.

75 % of the fraud posts were for commercial debt collections or commercial equipment purchases (where a real business is impersonated), 11 % were personal business loan collection frauds, 9 % were separation agreement scams, 3 % were IP or copyright infringement scams, 1 % were employee injury or dismissal frauds and 1 % real estate bad cheque scams.

In the past year or so, I have seen frauds perpetrated where a hacker hacked into a client's email account and waited until the opportune time (just as a real estate deal closed) to send instructions to the lawyer... [more]

When lawyers think about real estate fraud, they tend to think about fake clients with forged ID obtaining fraudulent mortgages, or flip frauds where the value of a property is artificially inflated.

Prior to joining Shutts, Steven practiced in the New York City office of a large Northeast law firm, where he handled a variety of litigation matters, including those involving breach of contract, health care fraud, product liability, employment and labor law, subrogation, personal injury and real estate litigation.

In the past year or so, I have seen frauds perpetrated where a hacker hacked into a client's email account and waited until the opportune time (just as a real estate deal closed) to send instructions to the lawyer (pretending to be the client) on where to disburse funds; and a situation where a lawyer's email account was hacked and the hacker, pretending to be a lawyer, sent instructions to a client on where to send funds.

One particularly fertile area for fraud is in the realm of real estate law, where in the past fraudsters have tried to bilk mortgagees and banks (and — by extension — their lawyers) out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through sham real estate transactions and mortgages registered against homes with falsely - inflated prices.

Kentucky courts have generally applied the doctrine of caveat emptor in real estate transactions, where there is no liability if there is no direct misrepresentation by the seller and the buyer has a chance to inspect the property prior to purchase, but there is an exception to that doctrine for fraud.

In the two states where I have been licensed, real estate transactions are covered under the states» statutes of frauds.

Reiser, Inc. v. Roberts Real Estate (292 A.D. 2d 726)-- claims that broker breached listing agreement based on extrinsic evidence can not survive the explicit language of the listing agreement granting to broker «full discretion to determine the appropriate marking approach» for the listed properties; broker establishes its entitlement to commission under the listing agreements by introducing uncontroverted evidence that three properties sold as a result of broker's efforts while the listing agreements where in effect; owner's claims of breach of fiduciary duty fail where owner, builder / developer, did not list all of its properties with broker as broker's duty is limited to protecting its principal's interest only with respect to properties which have been listed with the broker; broker's duty to refrain from taking action adverse to its principal's interests is necessarily tied to the transaction that formed the agency relationship; owner's claim of fraud in the inducement under one of two listing agreements survives motion for summary judgment

Century 21 Volpe Realty v. Jhong Kim (231 A.D. 2d 667)- broker entitled to real estate commission where seller entered into a valid and enforceable contract for sale of property and then willfully breached the agreement, causing the failure of the transfer of title to the property; agreement satisfies statute of frauds.

Marshall v. Gallinger Real Estate Co. (222 A.D. 2d 1101)- fraudulent misrepresentation; fraud cause of action fails where purchaser (i) noticed defective condition upon first visit to property, (ii) hired an engineer to inspect the property, and (iii) where there was no active concealment of defect.

107 DOS 98 Matter of DOS v. Sosis - subject matter jurisdiction; due process; failure to appear at hearing; proper business practices; deposits; fraudulent practice; DOS fails its burden of proof; DOS has subject matter jurisdiction if at the time the disciplinary proceeding was commenced by proper service of a notice of hearing and complaint the party was (i) licensed to engage in regulated real estate activities, or (ii) an applicant for either a license or for the renewal of a license to engage in regulated real estate activities, or (iii) eligible to automatically renew the prior license under the two - year limitation provision of RPL § 441 (2); ex parte hearing is permissible upon proof of proper notice of hearing; DOS has subject matter jurisdiction where party was licensed at the time proceeding was commenced and, where at time of hearing, although not licensed was eligible to automatically apply to renew pursuant to RPL § 441 (2); licensee operated a real estate brokerage business under an unlicensed name; licensee unlawfully retains deposit funds after deposit monies were delivered on the condition that same were to be disbursed only on the principal's consent and approval and said consent and approval was not given; licensee's illegal exercise of right of ownership over his principal's funds spawns conversion and constitutes a fraudulent practice; DOS fails its burden of proof to establish licensee failed to deposit trust funds in a segregated escrow account, engaged in fraud and changed business location without notice to DOS; restitution ordered in the amount of $ 1,900 plus interest, fine of $ 1,000 and any further application for licensure shall not be considered until applicant pays said fine and provides proof of payment of restitution

7 DOS 00 DOS v. Flagship Marketing Group - availing of license; failure to cooperate with DOS investigation; jurisdiction; proper business practices; ex parte hearing may proceed upon proof of proper service; DOS retains jurisdiction over party not licensed at the time of the hearing where, at that time the complaint was served, the party was (i) licensed, (ii) an applicant for a license or renewal, or (iii) was eligible to automatically renew; salesperson is prohibited both from owning, directly or indirectly, singly or jointly, any shares of voting stock in and from being an officer of any licensed real estate brokerage corporation with which the salesperson is associated; representative real estate broker availed the corporate broker license to an associated salesperson where the office was operated by the salesperson without the direct supervision of the representative broker and the salesperson conducted business as a broker for his own benefit; representative real estate broker engaged in fraud by availing the corporate real estate broker license to a salesperson; representative broker's availing of corporate broker's license for which the corporate broker is vicariously liable; failure to provide business records constitutes failure to cooperate with DOS investigation; DOS fails to establish fraud, ignorance or negligence is not sufficient to prove mistake; pressure, regardless of how severe, is not undue influence; restitution denied where funds sought were received by an entity not named or charged in the complaint; corporate broker fined $ 3,000.00, representative broker's license revoked and fined $ 3,000.00 and salesperson fined $ 5,000.00

The buyer had evidence of disputed fact issues on whether the seller's real estate broker had committed fraud or was negligent in handling the real estate transaction where the square footage of the property was inaccurate.

Straw buyers in real estate represent a common form of fraud where someone convinces someone else with good credit to act as a «straw buyer».

A big part of the problem is what the FBI calls «collusion fraud» where real estate professionals work together to take advantage of short sales and distressed properties to make a quick profit, working together in ways that make it hard for their efforts to be discovered by the wronged parties as well as the federal investigators.

Things to consider: If buying and selling real estate, being the multifaceted situation that it is, finds itself sometimes even too complex for trained professionals in some situations, requiring the addition of other trained professionals such as lawyers, inspectors, insurance pro's, appraisers, land surveyors, tax specialists, financial planning and estate management people or companies, divorce specialists, grief counsellors, expert witnesses, construction people, builder issues, mortgage fraud professionals, banking backup people, ex pat and non-resident specialists, immigration rules and regs, investment counsellors, to help unravel oddities and eventualities, just imagine the Rubik's cube the journey represents to the average, unrepresented buyer or seller, perhaps even ones in the midst of it while trying to digest a purchase or sale, going through a divorce or dealing with a grieving relative, due to a death in the family, even more especially where English is not that individual's first language.

With real estate, blockchain technology is likely to have the greatest impact in less economically developed parts of the world where property rights are less secure, title is more difficult to establish and fraud is of greatest concern.