Top 10 Real Estate Headlines from All Regions The Chinese drywall claims, litigation, and impacts continue and will continue for many years. This article summarizes the damages aspects of Chinese drywall in the United States. The timeshare industry has endeavored for some time to gain a solid foothold in Asia. Currently, only four countries within the region have more than ten genuine timeshare resorts; namely, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Australia. In the following case, the court had to consider the construction of a contract, and in particular the effect of a clause concerning the priority of documents, in order to determine which of two conflicting provisions relating to the payment mechanism was to prevail. In the following case the court had to consider whether an employer’s right to liquidated and ascertained damages ended upon termination of the employment of the contractor under the contract. An adjudicator’s decision is binding unless and until it is finally determined by litigation, arbitration, or agreement between the parties. In the following Scottish case the court had to consider the validity of various assignments of collateral warranties to the sub-tenant of a property and the enforcement of those collateral warranties against the parties who originally provided them. In the following case the court had to address whether the court had the power to grant an injunction restraining a party from pursuing a referral to adjudication. In the following case, the court refused to enforce a decision of the adjudicator on the grounds that the adjudicator made a material jurisdictional error in deliberately declining to consider the employer’s set -off defence; and that the deliberate decision amounted to a breach of natural justice. In the following case, the court had to consider the nature of the parties relationship and in particular whether the parties had entered into a construction contract within the meaning of section 107 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (Construction Act). Real estate investors frequently use options to secure their rights in a piece of land while they explore the feasibility of development of that property, to avoid committing substantial funds to buy the property until the unknowns can be explored. | 
