Cathleen Benedetto Attorney At Law

For many people, buying or selling real estate is the biggest financial transaction in their life. Whether you are a first-time home buyer or an experienced real estate investor, hidden clauses or misinterpreted provisions can cause future legal difficulties. Many attorneys do not take the time to negotiate the contract of sale provisions and simply use a standard contract of sale.

We represent individual buyers and sellers of commercial property, small business owners and large corporations in commercial transactions throughout the New York metropolitan area. Commercial property agreements can be complex transactions. They often are surrounded by detailed clauses that, if not follow correctly, can lead to disputes.

Title insurance is protection against loss arising from problems connected to the title to your property. Before you purchased your home, it may have gone through several ownership changes and the land on which it stands went through many more. There may be a weak link at any point in that chain that could emerge to cause trouble.

It is not unusual, as life changes, that my clients may need to change their Deed for many different reasons. Often, Estate Planning, changing business ventures, marriage, or divorce justifies this change. A deed is an instrument that transfers ownership of real property from one owner to another. A deed includes the names of the current owner (grantor) and the new owner (grantee), and provides a legal description of the property.

Obtaining a mortgage is not simple. You have to remember that this is part of the house buying process and the tasks involved are quite complicated. A mortgage is designed to help you buy a home without putting up a large amount of cash. After all, only a few people have the cash to pay upfront. When looking for a mortgage, there are several important factors that you need to consider.