Condominium unit owners, board members, and community association representatives from across the Commonwealth gathered at the Radisson Hotel in Chelmsford to hear six P&A attorneys and three additional experts discuss issues facing our condominium association...

Developing private apartments may pay more than running a hotel so the new owner, Anbang Insurance Group, a Chinese company that recently acquired the building, has announced plans to make the change. The plan includes closing the building for up to three years to do...

Houses that are smaller than 500 square feet are frequently disallowed as residences by town zoning boards. A minimum of 150 sf per person is generally required to prevent overcrowding in a building but a new way of viewing this type of construction is emerging....

Perkins & Anctil performs over 500 real estate closings in the course of a year. The staff involved have become quite efficient at carrying out the process and offer a few tips to buyers and sellers on the “Real Estate Law” page of the website. Here is a sample:...

Employees who sign non-compete agreements with their employers in Massachusetts can be involuntarily let go from the company and still prevented from working until the term of the agreement has expired. This has been the long-standing rule but now there is increasing...

Attorney Charlie Perkins forwards the following update on the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s action against community associations: By Dawn Bauman (6/2/16) Led by Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA-D), the Massachusetts congressional delegation wrote to urge Federal...

Event organizers intent on raising awareness for fallen first responders and law enforcement officers created 13.1 mile and 5 mile routes that began at the Boston Seaport World Trade Center and wound through downtown by Government Center, The Public Gardens and out to...

The upcoming holiday, marking the unofficial beginning of summer, was originally intended to honor our nation’s fallen military heroes. Beginning after the Civil War, the Grand Army of the Republic, a Union Army Veterans’ organization, chose to decorate the graves of...

The US housing market has not seen the current rate of new home sales since January of 2008. Also, the seasonally adjusted rate, which was at 216,000 according to the Commerce Department, exceeded economists’ estimates by nearly 100,000. Market analysts attribute the...

Four companies have announced plans or made demonstrations regarding their intention to build a tubular transport system from Los Angeles to San Francisco that would cut travel time from 6 hours of driving to 30 minutes. This requires speeds of around 750 mph which...

Over 60 entities have filed for bankruptcy protection as a result of the current market downturn despite the recent marginal recovery in oil prices. Exco Resources, Inc. of Dallas, TX is the latest and one of at least five to file last week. Prices of $25/bbl in...

The National Association of Home Builders has conducted a nationwide survey of building contractors about regulatory fees and learned that those for code compliance, permitting and sewer use are holding steady but increasingly common “Impact Fees” are adding to their...

The Perkins & Anctil website has a number of sections that could be helpful to condominium unit owners. These explain concepts behind the creation of a condominium, their operation and the associated legal aspects. The following can be found in the Condominium Law...

Perkins & Anctil attorneys and staff are attending the event which is to be held at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston on Tuesday May 24, 2016 from 10:30 am to 4:00 pm. Come visit us at Booth #326 and receive a free copy of our flyer, “10 Must Haves in Your...

Pending voter approval of recreational use of the drug this fall, Massachusetts State Treasurer Deborah B. Goldberg is getting ready to block home cultivation and retail distribution until January, 2018. Polls suggest legalization is imminent for the Commonwealth so...

The following article was forwarded by Attorney Charlie Perkins: Thanks to the efforts of the Brambleton Community Association in Northern Virginia and their community manager, Rick Stone, AMS, LSM, PCAM, Representative Barbara Comstock (R-VA) has signed on to The...

Peabody Energy of St. Louis, MO has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, hoping to restructure some of the debt incurred by the company due to steadily dropping coal prices. Spokespeople say the company intends to continue operating, although given the global and long...

Attorney Charlie Perkins forwards this warning issued by HOA.COM: In this edition of our weekly e-newsletter we would like to feature an original article by www.HOA-USA.com focusing on a topic of national importance: the Zika Virus.Zika – HOAs Should Be Proactive Zika...

The Supreme Judicial Court is expected to rule in the case of two women who were formerly in a domestic relationship, raised two children born by one of the partners, and are now disputing parenting rights. After 13 years of living together as a couple but without...

Zillow, the online real estate database, has determined that for Boston and vicinity, the best time to put a home up for sale is May 16 to May 31. It seems hyper-specific but they back up the claim by citing their listing, sale and “Zestimate” data from 2008-2015....