• Santarelli v. Santarelli

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lackawanna County
    Judge: Judge Nealon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2023 CV 3025

    Defendants petitioned to strike a lis pendens filed by plaintiff against parcels of land containing a residence. The court granted the motion where title to the subject property was not at issue in the litigation.

  • Stop Blight Inc. v. Dinardo

    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Financial Services and Banking | Non-Profit | Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Bowes
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 251 WDA 2022

    Appellant appealed the trial court's order sustaining intervenor's preliminary objections and dismissing appellant's property conservatorship action. The court affirmed, holding that the property at issue was subject to a pending foreclosure action, and thus was not susceptible to conservatorship, where a mortgage lender renewed its efforts to obtain a sheriff's sale on the property seven months after the borrower's bankruptcy case was dismissed.

  • Frazier v. Stanislaus

    Publication Date: 2023-10-02
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County
    Judge: Judge Hill
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 00994

    Appellants appealed a non-jury verdict favoring appellee in a lawsuit alleging various claims including fraud and breach of contract involving real property. However, the court found that, because appellants failed to provide the required Pa.R.A.P. 1925(b) statement of matters complained of on appeal, they waived all issues related to the judgment and award of damages and recommended that the matter be dismissed with prejudice.

  • McDaniel v. Kendall Custom Homes LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-09-18
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Allegheny County
    Judge: Judge Hertzberg
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: GD22-000038

    Defendants appealed the court's orders that a driveway easement shared by the parties was legally enforceable and that defendants were in contempt of court. The court addressed defendants' claims of error and determined it did not err.

  • Borough of Brookhaven v. Carman

    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Ceisler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 761 C.D. 2022

    Trial court abused discretion in denying without a hearing a petition to intervene nunc pro tunc in property conservatorship proceedings where it was patently obvious from the face of the record that proposed intervenor had an ownership interest in the property and was not served with notice of the conservatorship. Order of the trial court vacated, case remanded.

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  • Carlino E. Brandywine, L.P. v. E. Brandywine Twp.

    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Ceisler
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 367 C.D. 2022

    Trial court erred in ordering injunction that failed to return the parties to the status quo ante and effectively granted a permanent injunction despite plaintiff merely requesting preliminary injunctive relief. Order of the trial court vacated and remanded.

  • Bindas v. Commonwealth

    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Supreme Court
    Judge: Justice Wecht
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 27 WAP 2022

    Landowner appealed the Commonwealth Court's en banc decision affirming the trial court's order sustaining the preliminary objections of appellee Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to appellant's petition for the appointment of a board of viewers. The court held that the failure of appellee's predecessor in interest to comply with a statutory duty to ensure both the filing and the indexing of its highway right of way plan in county deed records meant appellee lacked an enforceable easement on appellant's property.

  • Palmer v. Palena

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Chester County
    Judge: Judge Binder
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2021-02843-RC

    The court issued its decision after a bench trial in a real property boundary dispute between plaintiff and defendant. The court held that plaintiff held exclusive title and ownership interest in a 21 square foot disputed area between the parties' residential lots pursuant to the consentable line doctrine.

  • City of Philadelphia v. A Kensington Joint, LLC

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Cannon
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 823 C.D. 2023

    Trial court did not err or abuse its discretion in ordering the preliminary relief of entering, inspecting and vacating the occupants of the property but erred to the extent it simultaneously allowed demolition as a remedy to abate property violations based on the record in the case. Affirmed in part and vacated in part.

  • Pratt v. Maggie

    Publication Date: 2023-09-04
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lawrence County
    Judge: Judge Hodge
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 10974 OF 2022,C.A.

    Plaintiff landlords sought summary judgment in their action against defendant tenants for breach of a residential lease and recovery of possession of the leased premises. The court granted plaintiffs' motion.