One of the great challenges in a recessionary cycle is reconciling the apparent contradiction between property values disproportionately impacted by the short-term realities of a lean marketplace and a more…
When Warren Mayor Jim Fouts called Detroit’s aging infrastructure a “ticking time bomb that’s ready to go off” earlier this year, he was referring to the state of Southeast Michigan’s…
Twenty-seven years ago, the city of Detroit and General Motors Corp.’s quest to obtain 465 acres of land to build a Cadillac plant in an old Hamtramck-Detroit neighborhood was adamantly…
In the seminal case of Gibbons v. Ogden,1 the Supreme Court established that Congress’ power to regulate interstate commerce under Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution2 embraced the power…
The retention of an expert requires certain basic tenets, and if any are broken it is likely that the viability of a condemnation just compensation claim will be destroyed. Condemnation…
Property owners who lose a portion of their land in condemnation proceedings no longer have to endure the paradox of finding themselves worse off than if the entire parcel had…