Receivership for Historically Significant Properties
Health and safety receivership can offer an avenue to abate nuisance conditions at properties with historical significance. California Receivership Group is committed to restoring properties that have fallen into disrepair and ensuring that they are preserved for future generations.
How do historic properties fit into the 17980.7 world?
Receivership is a legal remedy for substandard properties under California Health and Safety Code § 17980.7.
In our experience, potentially historic buildings with nuisance conditions are dilapidated to the point of being blighted.
Historically significant buildings include those on national and local registers as well as those that are not officially recognized, but which have important architectural details, and/or have constituents advocating for their protection.
In our experience, the ownership and title of such properties is almost always a mess. Quiet title actions are expensive and can take years, but in a receivership, title can be quieted by the stroke of a judicial pen.
We believe that a nuisance property should pay its own cost of repair.
There are limits to the remedy since it’s challenging to completely "bring back" a historical property, but at a minimum receivership can be a catalyst to putting the property on a path to being revived.
