NY State — NY Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law

§ 1601 — SECTION 1601 Application by trustee for court authorization to mortgage, to lease, to sell, to acquire or to exchange real property or for confirmatio...

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What is NY RPAPL § 1601?

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This section allows a trustee to seek court authorization for actions involving real property, including mortgaging, leasing, selling, acquiring, or exchanging property. The statute specifies procedures for trustees managing real estate assets within a trust. Applies to trustees of testamentary trusts and other real property interests.

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§ 1601 SECTION 1601 Application by trustee for court authorization to mortgage, to lease, to sell, to acquire or to exchange real property or for confirmatio...

RPAPL § 1601

1.When the assets of a trust include an interest in real property, the trustee may apply to the court designated in section 1603, and in the case of a testamentary trust, to the court having jurisdiction thereof, for an order authorizing such trustee to mortgage, to lease or to sell such real property or a part thereof; or to acquire land adjacent to such real property or to exchange a portion of such real property for lands adjacent to such real property when either such acquisition or exchange would tend to improve the boundary lines of such real property; or to confirm a lease for a term longer than ten years made by a trustee of such real property without obtaining prior authorization by a court.

2.An application for an order authorizing a trustee to acquire land adjacent to real property in which the trustee has an interest, or as to which he has a power of sale, may also be made when such real property and the adjacent land to be acquired have the same building or physically connected buildings thereon.

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