by Joseph Console, Esq. | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog, Real Estate |
The Lis Pendens in Pennsylvania: A Good Tool If you work in the Philadelphia (and Pennsylvania generally) real estate market, you have certainly at least heard of the infamous ‘lis pendens,’ though you might not know what it is or how it can help you. A lis...
by Joseph Console, Esq. | Sep 2, 2016 | Blog, Real Estate |
Do I Need a Land Trust? I’m a lawyer, and even I think we are in a bit of a litigation happy society at the moment. Every time we read about a tragedy of some kind, following quickly on its heels is almost always a story about who hired which lawyer and in what...
by Joseph Console, Esq. | Jul 28, 2016 | Blog, Real Estate |
Philadelphia Transfer Tax Part II : The Family Exemptions This is a continuation of the blog post from June 22nd, which you can read about here. In that post, I highlighted how the Pennsylvania transfer tax system works generally, and how the taxes in certain counties...
by Joseph Console, Esq. | Jun 22, 2016 | Blog, Real Estate |
Philadelphia Transfer Tax: The Tax is Too High! A client of mine, a citizen hailing from a different English colony than these United States, commented to me recently that purchasing property in the United States is comparatively beyond complicated. He also said that...
by Joseph Console, Esq. | Jun 3, 2016 | Blog, Real Estate |
The Philadelphia Probate Process and Selling Family Real Estate A major and very common issue that I come across as a probate and real estate attorney in Philadelphia (the Pennsylvania suburbs and New Jersey as well!), is the question of what to do with a piece of...
