If you're buying a property with somebody else, one of the most important things you'll need to decide is whether to own it as 'joint tenants' or 'tenants in common'. This is something you should ...

Can you play nice and share a piece of real estate? Sharing is hard enough, but imagine jointly owning an investment property with your brother when he decides that he would like to sell and then ...

The owners of the Flatiron Building were at an impasse, and it was costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars each month. They could not agree on the landmarked tower’s future, and its present was ...

Ari Chazanas is the founder and CEO of Lotus West Properties, a property management and investment firm based in West Los Angeles. Tenant improvement (TI) and common area maintenance (CAM) are just as ...

A recent amendment to the Los Angeles Municipal Code, Measure ULA, has greatly increased the real property transfer taxes for realty sold within the city. Properties owned and sold as tenants in ...