Massachusetts adopted a new law taxing and regulating the short-term rental market. The following information should help Realtors® navigate the short-term rental market under these new laws and regulations. For additional information, see the Department of Revenue's FAQ page.
What does this new law [...]
The sale of Little Neck in Ipswich, MA to its cottage owners will forever be one of the watershed events in this town's long and storied history. Regardless of your position with respect to the sale, we should all take a moment to recognize that life on Little Neck for its residents will never be the same.
[...]Could it get any worse in Massachusetts for residential landlords? The answer is a loud YES.
Northeast Housing Court Judge David Kerman ruled in the recent case of Sheehan v. Weaver a landlord is "strictly liable" for a drunk tenant's fall through a defective porch guardrail. The Massachusetts Real Estate Law Blog cites this as "yet [...]
After wrongful foreclosure practices came to light in October 2010, attorneys general from all 50 states joined forces together with the federal government to punish five large financial institutions - Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Ally Financial - for mortgage related misconduct, including "robo-signing" and [...]
Hurricane Irene has left her mark - trees have fallen- now what?
In this day and age of our litigious society and our complete neglect to remain friendly with our neighbors, the issue of trees has become more and more problematic. If we lived in a perfect world and neighbors actually got along, a simple conversation from one neighbor to [...]
Atty. Rich Kallman
Over the last several years, many Massachusetts homeowners may have experienced a real estate closing unlike those that they typically were party to in the past. These closings were conducted either at their home by an attorney or at a bank branch by non-attorney bank personnel. The agent for the lender [...]
