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In Greth Development v. Berks County Board of Assessment Appeals, the Berks County trial court considered whether the tax assessment of individual lots of a residential subdivision should take into account “ongoing subdivision concerns, including cash flow, absorption rate of lot sales, and ongoing expenses.” The case involved a residential subdivision in which 25 lots…

The Pennsylvania General Assembly recently passed the Real Property Electronic Recording Act.  H.B. 970, passed the Senate as amended 49-0 on June 25, and passed the House on concurrence 198-0 on June 29. The bill brings into Pennsylvania law the Uniform Real Property Electronic Recording Act. 

 

The Act’s purpose is to allow …

Today at 10:00 am ET, representatives of the Appraisal Institute and the Appraisal Foundation will testify before the US House of Representatives, Committee on Financial Services, Subcommittee on Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity. The topic of the hearing is “Appraisal Oversight: The Regulatory Impact on Consumers and Businesses.” The following link is to the hearing…

PennDOT announced the award of the largest construction contract in agency history, a $212.3 million contract to improve Interstate 95 and its interchange at Cottman Avenue (Route 73) in Northeast Philadelphia. According to PennDOT, “This record-setting contract is for the second stage of our two-stage program” for this project. PennDOT awarded the low-bid $212,325,000 contract…

PA’s Commonwealth Court recently ruled that a party alleging adverse possession over condemned property may intervene and challenge a taking. In In re Condemnation of Rights of Way and Easements, a Township condemned property to construct a sanitary sewer system. The Township named the record owner as the property owner. Owners of property near the…

Herb Bass, Marc Needles and I are the proud authors of a new edition of Pennsylvania Eminent Domain, the leading treatise on Pennsylvania eminent domain law. This is the first complete revision of the treatise since it was originally published in 1964. Fox Rothschild attorneys have prepared extensive supplements to the original treatise for…

Our partner Wendy Rothstein was recently appointed by the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Board of Judges to a 3 year term to serve on one of the County Board of View Panels. Wendy was one of three attorneys under consideration and she received overwhelming support from the Judges who voted to appoint her.

The US House of Representatives recently passed the "Private Property Rights Protection Act of 2012." The Act prohibits the federal government and states and municipalities from exercising its power of eminent domain over property to be used for economic development if the state or municipality receives federal economic development funds during any fiscal year

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