About Doug Wasser
Douglas F. Wasser is an AV-rated business and real estate attorney practicing in commercial real estate, corporate transactions, lending, hotel, banking, estate and trust, fine art dispute resolution, co-op and condo and business law.
With over 30 years of experience, Doug represents parties who are:
- buying, selling and operating properties
- leasing or subleasing office space in Class A buildings in Manhattan and elsewhere in the country
- leasing or subleasing retail space
- buying or selling businesses
- net leasing buildings
- purchasing or selling hotels or conducting business as a hotel franchisee
- obtaining or refinancing commercial mortgage debt
- resolving employment issues
- organizing or restructuring businesses
- transferring wealth earned over a lifetime to the next generation
- engaged in probate and estate litigation and administration
- resolving conflicting fine art claims including disputes as to ownership, authenticity or provenance
- reclaiming funds taken from businesses by fraud
Mr. Wasser appears frequently as a quoted source in major print and online media on emerging developments in real estate law, including the following print and website references:
NEW YORK TIMES:
- May 26, 2013, Mortgages – Reducing Refinancing Expenses
- June 10, 2012, Real Estate Q & A – Life Estate and Future Sale
- April 1, 2012, Real Estate Q & A – A Two-Family with Three Units
- December 17, 2010, Real Estate Q & A – Holding the Deposit in a Lease Purchase;
- July 2, 2010, Real Estate Q & A – Reading the Fine Print of a Condo Lease
- March 5, 2010, Real Estate Q &A – Misclassifying a Certificate;
- September 29, 2009, Real Estate Q & A – Keep the Money Bag Home, Please;
- August 7, 2009, Real Estate Q & A – Returning a Deposit with Accrued Interest;
- July 17, 2009, Real Estate Q & A – Certain Trees Are Protected;
- March 29, 2009, Real Estate Q &A – Going After Deed Fraud;
- January 14, 2009, Real Estate Q & A, – Does a Mortgage Tax Apply in a Refinancing;
- September 4, 2008, Real Estate Q & A, – Paying a Mortgage Tax on Home Refinancings;
- September 11, 2007, Mortgage Q & A – Mortgage Taxes and Lines of Credit;
- July 31, 2007, Mortgage Q & A – The Complexities of Recording Taxes;
- July 3, 2007, Mortgage Q & A – Reducing a Mortgage Tax;
- April 10, 2007, Mortgage Q & A – Does a Mortgage Tax Apply to a Refinancing?;
- January 21, 2007, Your Home – When Friends buy a House Together;
- August 14, 2005, Q & A – Passing Along Tax Credits in a Co-op;
- October 31, 2004, Your Home – How to Abandon an Underground Tank;
- March 14, 2004, Q&A – A Condo Fee for an Open House;
- December 1, 2002, Your Home – Tax Breaks for Owners Of Co-ops;
- October 21, 2001, Q&A – Condo Owner with 20 Apartments;
- March 18, 2001, Q&A – A Building Going Up Next Door;
- July 30, 2000, Your Home – Warranties for New Houses;
- June 18, 2000, Q&A – Rules on Taking a Roommate;
- July 30, 2000 – Your Home: Warranties for New Houses;
- June 20, 1999, Q&A;
- February 7, 1999, Your Home – Disposing of a Paid Up Mortgage;
- March 29, 1998, Your Home – Buying a House in Foreclosure;
- December 14, 1997, Your Home – Homeowner Tax Cuts in New York;
- November 2, 1997, Your Home – Mortgage Transfer Savings;
- June 22, 1997, Mortgage Recording Taxes;
- October 5, 1997, Real Estate Q & A,;
- December 15, 1996, Q&A;
- October 6, 1996, Q&A;
- April 28, 1996, Your Home – Lowering Taxes on a Mortgage;
- January 13, 1991, Talking: Co-op Shares; Lenders Tighten the Rules
HABITAT MAGAZINE: March-April 2006 – A Failure to Communicate
NEWSDAY: May 3, 1996 – Saving With Assigned Mortgages
NEW YORK LAW JOURNAL:
August 17, 2007, Marketplace
February 4, 2009, Realty Law Digest- Motel in the Sky v. Wald
August 18, 2017, Front Page, Time-Share Unit Owners’ Lawyer Praises $6.5 Million AG Settlement
WBAI RADIO BROADCAST:
“How to Make it in the City”; Air Date: April 25, 2017 @ http://nuarchive.wbai.org/mp3/wbai_170425_040000makeit.mp3
M.O.COM:
“What’s Yours?” Interview of Douglas F. Wasser; published online on May 29, 2013
REDWEEK.COM
“Attorney General Launches Outreach to Manhattan Club Owners” February 22, 2015
“Manhattan Club Case Approaches One-Year Anniversary with No End in Sight” June 10, 2015
TIMESHARING TODAY (Podcast)
TST Around the Industry – The Manhattan Club – Video, July 28, 2016
PUBLISHED CASES: Skyview Motel, LLC v. Wald (March 22, 2011) NY Appellate Division/Second Department
PROFESSIONAL PANELS: Legal Issues for Artists and Patrons: Arts Lawyers Address Questions of Vital Interest to Arts Professionals; Salmagundi Art Club, New York, New York, January 21, 2015
BAR ADMISSIONS:
New York, 1981
Southern District of New York, 2011
Eastern District of New York, 2011
EDUCATION:
The State University of New York, Buffalo School of Law, Buffalo, New York, 1980/J.D.
Queens College of the City University of New York, New York, New York, 1977/B.A.
Honors: Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities
ANCILLARY INTERESTS:
Sunday Religious School Teacher
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