Product Description

Recent updates:

• Update: March 2024

  Dear Subscriber:

  Thank you for updating your reference library with the 2024 edition of the Massachusetts Real Estate Law Sourcebook & Citator . 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.

  Thank you for your continued support as we at MCLE strive to bring you the latest solutions to the challenges you face in your practice.

  Very truly yours,

  John M. Lawlor, MCLE Publications Attorney

Table of Contents

Part 1 expand

Massachusetts Laws Relating to Real Estate and Conveyancing

Buy Chapter

Part 2 expand

Massachusetts Rules and Regulations

Buy Chapter

Part 3 expand

Massachusetts DOR Directives and Rulings

Buy Chapter

Part 4 expand

Massachusetts Land Court Materials

Buy Chapter

Part 5 expand

Federal Statutes and Special Acts

Buy Chapter

Part 6 expand

Federal Regulations

Buy Chapter

Part 7 expand

Practice Guidance

Buy Chapter

Part 8 expand

Case Digest

Buy Chapter

Editor(s)