This handbook is an essential resource for attorneys new to real estate law and seasoned real estate practitioners alike. COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE: FINANCING AND TRANSACTIONAL ISSUES focuses on construction financing from the borrower’s perspective, commercial real estate financing from both the borrower’s and mortgage lender’s perspectives, governmental sources of financing including other incentives, real estate broker law and litigation, commercial real estate sale contracts, endorsements and affirmative coverages for title insurance, and choice of entity for taking title.
Chapter 1 — Construction Financing from the Borrower’s Perspective
Eugene S. Kraus, Jason R. Sleezer, and Natalie M. Tomes, Scott & Kraus, LLC, Chicago
Chapter 2 — Commercial Real Estate Financing: The Borrower’s Perspective
Stacy A. Osmond & Mark D. Yura, DLA Piper LLP (US), Chicago
Chapter 3 — Commercial Real Estate Financing: The Mortgage Lender’s Perspective
Joel M. Hurwitz, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, and Robert J. Taylor, Roetzel & Andress, Chicago
Chapter 4 — Governmental Sources of Financing and Other Incentives
Ronald S. Cope, Schain, Banks, Kenny & Schwartz, Ltd., and Steven M. Elrod, Elrod Friedman LLP, Chicago
Chapter 5 — Real Estate Tax and Government Incentives
Keith W. Groebe, Timothy J. Hammersmith, and Michael C. Bedell, Masuda Funai, Chicago
Chapter 6 — Real Estate Broker Law and Litigation
Patricia Varona Garcia, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Chicago
Chapter 7 — Commercial Real Estate Sale Contracts
Peter Tsantilis, Liston & Tsantilis, P.C., Chicago
Chapter 8 — Choice of Entity for Taking Title
Karen G. Courtney, Attorneys’ Title Guaranty Fund, Inc., Chicago
