Articles by Michael J Berey

Mortgage Recording Tax

• Commercial Credit Line Mortgages (1999)
• Credit Line Mortgages in New York (1999)
• Last Dollar Endorsements and Capping The New York Mortgage (1995)
• Revisiting Mortgage Assignments - Real Property Law Section 275 (1998)
• Spreader Agreements (2005)

Mortgages

• Home Equity Theft Prevention Act (2007)
• Mortgage Foreclosure Legislation(2008)
• Chapter 507, Laws of 2009 Enforcing Real Estate Mortgages and Cooperative Unit Security Interests

New York's Lien Law

• New York's Lien Law and Building Loans (2007)
• The Lien Law Trust: Lenders Beware (2007)

Title Insurance

• Endorsements Add Value(1998)
• Mutual Indemnification Agreement(2008)
• New Title Insurance Policies, Endorsements (2001)
• New Title Insurance Policies In New York (2007)
• Title Insurance For Mezzanine Loan Financing in New York (2001)
• New York Title Policy Endorsements Change (2009)

Transfer Taxes

• Applying The Continuing Lien Exclusion To Consideration(2001)
• New York City Multiple Residential Cooperatives and Condominiums(2004)
• New York City's Real Property Transfer Tax and Bulk Sales (2005)
• New York City's Real Property Transfer Tax and Bulk Sales Revisited (2006)
• Tax Aggregation Rules: Traps For The Unwary (2002)
• The Mere Change Exemption and Controlling Interests (2000)
• Transfer Taxes On the Enforcement of Mezzanine Loans (2009)

Uniform Commercial Code

• Basics of Revised UCC Article 9 (2001)
• Coop Units and Revised UCC Article 9 (2006)
• Chapter 507, Laws of 2009 Enforcing Real Estate Mortgages and Cooperative Unit Security Interests
• Legislative Recognition of Co-ops Has a Downside

Other

• ACRIS E-Tax (2003)
• New Procedures for Real Property Recordings (2003)
• New York City Local Law Enacted to Maintain Assisted Rental Housing (2006)
• New York City Tax Sales (1997)
• Voidable Gift Transfers(2002)
• Statutory Short Form Power of Attorney Revised New Statutory Major Gifts Rider (2009)