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Washington D.C. Appellate Court Holds Foreclosure of Condominium Lien Extinguished First Mortgage Despite Condominium Association’s Representations to the Contrary

/ Owner - March 23, 2018

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals recently held that a condominium’s foreclosure of a “super-priority” condominium lien extinguished an otherwise first-priority mortgage on the property, despite the fact that the association’s notice of sale and deed to the third-party purchaser stated that the sale was “subject to” the mortgage. See Liu v. U.S. Bank Nat’l Ass’n, 2018 WL 1095503 (D.C. Mar. 1, 2018). In the case, the borrower purchased a condominium in 2007 and financed it through a loan from the lender, which was secured by a mortgage on the property. In 2009, the borrower defaulted on both his loan and his condominium assessments.     Read the article………………..

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