Overnight I received an email asking if a promissory note is recorded where land is used as collateral. Here's how I responded: P...

Since 2011, homeowners in Massachusetts have an automatic homestead that protects up to $125,000 in the equity of the family residence. If t...

The Merrimack Valley Housing Report is a monthly electronic newsletter on housing issues and trends in the Merrimack Valley. It is pr...

There's an interesting story in today's Globe about efforts by people in the state's legal community to get the Massachusetts Tr...

Recently I received an email from a homeowner asking if Massachusetts law requires that a mortgage that “is transferred from one compan...

There are three types of joint ownership of real estate in Massachusetts: tenants in common, joint tenants and tenants by the entiret...

The famous Massachusetts and United States Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr once wrote in a decision, “. . .on this poi...