North Carolina and Wake County are continuing to keep pace and to set the pace of residential real estate development in spite of months of coronavirus pandemic, and we are bucking the reported slowdown of affordable housing construction elsewhere in the United...
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Home Work – North Carolina Legislators Addressing Foreclosure, Rental and Utility Emergency Assistance, and Workforce Housing
June 11, 2020 Amid news of more than 1.5 million new jobless claimants in the United States this week filing for unemployment assistance, and word that 20 or more States, including North Carolina, are experiencing a new spike in COVID-19 cases, North Carolina...
Wakefield Commons celebrates grand opening; 80 affordable housing units
A new, multifamily affordable housing community providing homes and serving 80 families and individuals in the Wakefield community of Raleigh celebrated its grand opening on July 27. The developers, the Taft-Mills Group, hosted a ribbon cutting and grand opening event...
Rights of First Refusal: An Offer That Can’t Be Refused?
Must a right of first refusal be recorded in order to defeat the claim of a buyer of real estate who recorded his own option to purchase? According to a recent decision of the North Carolina Court of Appeals (Anderson v. Walker, No. COA 17-782, 3 July 2018), the...
New Power of Attorney Law in Effect
Clients in need of a new power of attorney for estate planning purposes, or for real estate transactions, should be aware that their lawyers will need to comply with a new law that became effective on January 1, 2018. As Janice Davies, an attorney at Davies Law PLLC...
Good fences don’t always make good neighbors
Although Robert Frost’s neighbor insists in the poem, Mending Wall, that “Good fences make good neighbors,” fences don’t always prevent boundary disputes and protracted litigation between neighbors, as the parties learned in a recent North Carolina Court of Appeals...
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