WSLL Recommends: Real Estate Finance Law

Nelson and Whitman's Real Estate Finance Law is a two volume set published by Thomson Reuters that provides broad coverage of real estate finance law practice, including sample commercial financing forms.

Topics covered include:

• The law of mortgages
• The necessity and nature of obligation
• Mortgage substitutes
• Foreclosure
• Rights and duties of the parties prior to foreclosure
• Potential liability for cleaning up hazardous waste and the impact of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
• Statutory impacts on foreclosure
• Subrogation, contribution, and marshaling
• Financing real estate construction
• Financing condominiums and cooperatives

The appendix of this set contains a brief overview to Researching Real Estate Finance Law on Westlaw, which includes a long listing of legal texts and practice materials for further research in real estate finance law.