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Bill Author: Land Bill Will Benefit Massachusetts Developers

BOSTON-A new land bill would allow developers to voluntarily take their property out of the state's registered land system. This translates into more efficient, less costly transactions, according to an attorney who worked on the bill.

By Naomi Grossman | Updated on February 06, 2001

BOSTON-A land bill that is about to take effect in this state could mean developers here will be able to conduct many of their deals more efficiently and at lower costs, an attorney who worked on creating it tells GlobeSt.com. The bill allows landowners to voluntarily withdraw their property from the state’s registered land system.

Once property becomes registered with a title adjudicated by a court, a procedure has to be adhered to within Land Court to ensure that transactions are conducted properly. According to Edward Smith, a real estate and government relations attorney who worked on the bill, those procedures are no longer necessary. “We now have title insurance,” Smith tells GlobeSt.com, “and other imperatives in the marketplace that diminish the need for procedures.”

According to Smith, it is in the interest of any developer to have their land treated as unregistered land, but until this bill only the state was allowed to take registered land out of the system. Now, landowners can withdraw their land from registration, but, says Smith, only commercial developers will probably take advantage of this.

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