Benchmarks: Buyer stuck with ‘murder home’ 
By:
Pat Murphy
Published: December 31, 2012
Tags: fraud, misrepresentation, property disclosure, real estate, real property
In a reversal of course, a Pennsylvania court ruled last week that home sellers had no duty to disclose that their property was the scene of a grisly murder/suicide.
Benchmarks: Home sellers sued for ‘lying’ about sex offender next door
Published: December 6, 2012
Tags: fraud, property disclosure, real property
Arizona law relieved Jeff and Marissa Currier of an affirmative obligation to disclose to prospective home buyers that they had a convicted sex offender living next door.
But according to a state court of appeals, that didn’t mean that the Curriers couldn’t get themselves into legal trouble by allegedly lying when asked why they wanted to move.
