Agreement Bargains Contract Negotiation 
Pro Builder
AUGUST 17, 2022
Buyers Back on Top—Market Cooldown Boosts Negotiating Power. A more balanced market is putting buyers back into the driver's seat, and those who can still afford home purchases are backing out of deals and capitalizing on their bargaining power. Around 63,000 home-purchase agreements were called off in July, a share equal to 16.1%
Best Practices Construction Law
MAY 7, 2014
The issue raises an important question: What should a contractor do during negotiations to allow for some “bargaining room” so as to avoid any appearance of filing a false claim? Owners often begins negotiations from the opposite end of the spectrum for the same reasons. Do not negotiate against yourself.
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Constructlaw
JULY 12, 2022
(collectively DonRob) agreed to sell, and 360 Residential LLC, 360 Sugar Hill LLC, and 360 Capital Company LLC, (collectively 360) agreed to purchase 12 acres (Site) of a 37-acre parcel of property in Sugar Hill, GA (the Agreement). Between the Agreement date and the scheduled closing date, the parties’ relationship deteriorated.
Construction Enquirer
JULY 5, 2023
Electricians are set for a 7% wage rise from 2024 after a new pay deal was hammered out by electrical contractors and union Unite under the JIB collective agreement. “This agreement gives us an opportunity to work with Unite on longer-term ambitions to update and modernise the industry to improve skills for a low carbon economy.”
Constructlaw
JUNE 17, 2022
But two recent state-court decisions evidence a change in that trend: Both held that the Economic Loss Doctrine bars fraud claims because parties to a commercial contract — often sophisticated and represented by counsel — allocate risk, prescribe damages, and rely on the terms of the bargain.
NH Construction Law
MAY 20, 2023
The Court relied on the general rule of contract law that “Where a promisor ‘prevents or hinders’ fulfillment of a condition which otherwise would have been fulfilled, ‘performance of the condition is excused’ and the promisor’s liability is ‘fixed’ regardless of the condition’s non-fulfillment.”
NH Construction Law
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
In an earlier blog ( #62 ) I discussed the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing that limits a contracting party’s exercise of the discretion afforded to it by the parties’ contract. The jilted sub sued for breach of contract and breach of the Consumer Protection Act. Ambrose Development, LLC , No.
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