The ACREL Report© 

The ACREL Report is a focused examination of various topics in real estate law and is intended to be the inclusive work of reference on the chosen subject.

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December 2024

The ACREL Report: Deed Project (December 2024)

This Report explores the uses and interpretations of special warranty deeds (and to some extent deeds generally) in the United States. In the process of preparing The ACREL Report on purchase and sale agreements, we realized that many misconceptions and misunderstandings seem to exist regarding the deeds commonly used in the consensual sale of commercial real estate – especially deeds in jurisdictions other than one’s own. We found very few articles on the subject of special warranty deeds and hope this Report will begin to fill that gap.

 

December 2022

The ACREL Report: Pre-Negotiated PSA (December 2022)

The Acquisitions Committee of ACREL created a pre-negotiated purchase agreement form with the goal of streamlining the commercial real estate sales process. This Report includes the current draft of a base PSA form as of December 31, 2022, along with other information that may be useful when using that form.