Real estate transactions / Barlow Burke, Professor of Law and John S. Myers and Alvina Reckman Myers Scholar, Washington College of Law, American University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

American conveyancing and professional responsibility -- Real estate brokers -- Contract risk of loss and equitable conversion -- The statute of frauds in real property transactions -- Contract of sale conditions -- Remedies for breach of contract -- Closings : deeds and escrows -- Deed descriptions -- Recording acts -- Title searches, abstracts, title insurance, reforms, and Torrens laws -- Mortgage lenders and markets -- Junior liens and mezzanine finance -- Transfers of the mortgage -- Pre-foreclosure remedies -- Foreclosures -- Real estate in trouble -- Installment land sale contracts -- Real property owners and the Internal Revenue Code -- Real estate planning: investment strategy -- Partnership and limited liability companies -- Construction agreements and finance -- Environmental concerns in real estate transactions -- Commercial leases.