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Sep 2019
Philadelphia Transfer Tax Calculation
Update to Philadelphia Transfer Tax Calculation

Responding with due haste to our blog the other day about how to determine Philadelphia realty transfer tax when the sales price is ...

20
Sep 2019
Philadelphia Realty Transfer Tax
Determining Philadelphia Realty Transfer Tax When Sales Price is Below The Assessed Fair Market Value

How does one value property for the purposes of determining realty transfer tax in Philadelphia when consideration for the property is nominal or ...

18
Jul 2019
property theft
Philly Property Theft, Real Estate Fraud Runs Rampant

Real estate investor Orin Clybourn had amassed a small fortune with a string of real estate transactions that followed the same formula: Longtime ...

16
Feb 2018
Bitcoin
Cryptocurrency and Meeting the “Good Funds Rule”

A underwriter bulletin released yesterday by First American Title Insurance Company provided further clearance on how title underwriting guidelines will view real estate ...

12
Dec 2017
Fraud caught during a Title Examination

You buy a car. You buy auto insurance. Then when you accidentally back into that fire hydrant (because you couldn’t see it in ...

11
Oct 2017
Marital Signature Requirements Updated

Updating Prior Blog Regarding Marital Signature Requirements This post is updating a post from February of 2012. We constantly get questions on whether or not ...

14
Oct 2016
Insurability Versus Marketability

Insurability Versus Marketability: What’s the Difference? It’s a question we regularly receive: how is a property’s insurability different from its marketability? These two terms, ...

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