Real Estate Resources

An authoritative treatise on New York real property, organized alphabetically by volume and chapter and containing an Annual Legislative Update. It has a comprehensive Subject Index.
LexisNexis Digital (Access limited to NYLS community)

This one-volume guide explores the full range of legal issues unique to New York commercial mortgages, especially the mortgage recording tax, title insurance, construction loans, New York Lien Law, rental income and leases, defaults and acceleration, foreclosure and other remedies, New York choice of law and forum, usury, and lost notes. Other chapters address the closing process and language. It has sample language, model documents, and legal checklists, The book includes a statutory supplement with all relevant excerpts of the statutes.
Lexis (ID and password required)

The work covers mortgage drafting, acceleration of the debt upon default and defenses to acceleration, Initiating the foreclosure procedure from the entire foreclosure process from the search and appointment of a receiver and a referee through the foreclosure sale and post-foreclosure sale procedures. It also covers alternative processes, including deed in lieu of foreclosure, settlement, and partial foreclosure, foreclosure of condominiums and cooperatives, foreclosure litigation, the judgment of foreclosure and sale, bidding terms, the foreclosure closing, eviction after foreclosure, deficiency judgments, and surplus money proceedings
Lexis (ID and password required)

Coverage of basic and complex issues of mortgages, foreclosures, and accelerations with analysis of the relevant caselaw and statutes. Practice tips for handling specific situations are also included. This title covers who must and who may participate in foreclosures, disposition of proceeds
mortgage recording taxes, deeds in lieu of foreclosures, realty mortgages, equitable or irregular mortgages and the right to foreclose
Westlaw (ID and password required)

Find a range of situations that can arise with the creation and enforcement of zoning regulations, in light of both judicial and administrative considerations. The text covers issues involving: zoning, zoning planning and subdivision, land use control, zoning and seniors. The impact of the Telecommunications Act on the siting of cell towers and local land use decision making are included as well as voluntary mediation, variances and regulatory takings. The set also includes extensive forms, zoning definitions, ordinance and charter provisions.
Westlaw (ID and password required)

Provides fundamental principles of law and demonstrates how they can be coordinated and used to solve the day-to-day real property issues you face. Topics include incidents of ownership, marketable title, contracts for sale, deeds, closing of title, rights of adjoining landowners, mechanics liens, mortgages and foreclosures, action to quiet title, easements, eminent domain, cooperatives and condominiums, and trusts.
Westlaw (ID and password required)

The Codes and other documents that appear on this site may not yet reflect the most current legislation or rules adopted by the City. In addition, certain textual errors and omissions may temporarily exist, resulting from problems in the source database provided to American Legal and from which this website was created. Although these errors and omissions are being corrected, any user discovering any such error is invited to please contact the publisher at NYC.editor@amlegal.com or at 800-445-5588 and/or the New York City Law Department at NYCCodeRulesCharter@law.nyc.gov.

The Codes and other documents that appear on this site may not yet reflect the most current legislation or rules adopted by the City. In addition, certain textual errors and omissions may temporarily exist, resulting from problems in the source database provided to American Legal and from which this website was created. Although these errors and omissions are being corrected, any user discovering any such error is invited to please contact the publisher at NYC.editor@amlegal.com or at 800-445-5588 and/or the New York City Law Department at NYCCodeRulesCharter@law.nyc.gov.

Provides information about, and analysis of, the laws and legal processes that govern New York City. The Center seeks to make the City’s government and decisions more fair, comprehensible and open to the public. The Center pursues its mission by scholarly research and writing and by widely disseminating information about New York City in accessible and easily understood formats. Coverage from 1995.

Includes administrative regulations for general city agencies, ethics agencies, land use agencies, borough presidents and an archive of pre-2017 material

The Commission is responsible for the conduct of planning relating to the orderly growth and development of the City, including adequate and appropriate resources for the housing, business, industry, transportation, distribution, recreation, culture, comfort, convenience, health and welfare of its population. The site includes links to data and forms about planning, initiatives, zoning, applications, data and tools by borough or citywide.