Massachusetts Real Estate Law Sourcebook & Citator

The real estate conveyancer's most indispensable deskbook, the Massachusetts Real Estate Law Sourcebook & Citator is a compendium of essential resources for both commercial and residential real estate practitioners, combining the latest statutes, regulations, and judicial and administrative resources with a citator summarizing key court decisions from the past year. The book's extensive resources include selected state and federal statutes and regulations as well as materials from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and the Land Court. Purchasers may download the book's entire contents, along with archived citator entries since 2006, for enhanced search capability and ready access.

This product combines the latest in real estate sourcebook materials - statutes, regulations, and judicial and administrative resources - with a case digest summarizing key court decisions. Subscribers may download the book’s entire contents, along with eighteen years of collected case abstracts, for enhanced access and searchability.

Highlights from the updates for 2024 include

• an administrative restructuring renaming the executive office of economic development and creating the executive office of housing and livable communities;
• amendments to Massachusetts zoning law set forth in G.L. cc. 40A to 40C and 40R;
• a new provision of G.L. c. 59 pertaining to property tax exemptions;
• modifications to the Massachusetts estate tax set forth at G.L. c. 65C;
• new and amended legislation on procedures governing real estate closings and the activities of notaries public;
• new legislation on summary process actions for nonpayment of rent;
• updated Massachusetts Department of Revenue guidance on annual property tax assessments and adjustments to the tax credit for persons age sixty-five and older;
• new memoranda from the chief title examiner on tax delinquency and remote online notarization;
• reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act and associated regulations;
• updates to the annual poverty guidelines published by the Department of Health and Human Services; and
• abstracts of twenty-seven recent real estate decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court.