A Massachusetts Land Court judge ruled in 2016 that a text message can satisfy the Statute of Frauds and seal a real estate transaction. As reported in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, the parties spent a month haggling over the sale of a Danvers office building. The seller believed it was free to accept another party’s offer and proceeded to enter a written purchase-and-sale agreement and set a tentative closing date. But the first purchaser thought they had a binding contract to acquire...
