Tax sale purchase deemed fraudulent transfer
By Megan G. Heeg
Real Estate Law,
July 2016
In Smith v. Sipi, LLC, a decision that could have a chilling effect on the Illinois real estate tax buying process, the Seventh Circuit held that a tax buyer was liable to a debtor in bankruptcy for a prior Illinois real estate tax sale on the basis that the tax sale was a fraudulent transfer.
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