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Unrecorded Purchase Money Mortgage Did Not Have Priority Over Mortgage Recorded by Good-Faith Lender for Value

The Second Department determined that plaintiff’s complaint failed to state a cause of action concerning whether plaintiff’s purchase money mortgage had priority over the recorded mortgage held by defendant bank.  Plaintiff’s mortgage was not recorded:

Pursuant to “New York’s Recording Act (Real Property Law § 291), a mortgage loses its priority to a subsequent mortgage where the subsequent mortgagee is a good-faith lender for value, and records its mortgage first without actual or constructive knowledge of the prior mortgage” … . Further, the plaintiff’s purchase money mortgage “is as much subject to the Recording Act as any other” … .

The amended complaint failed to allege that [defendants] had constructive or actual notice of the plaintiff’s purchase money mortgage, that either made any representation to the plaintiff, or otherwise acted in bad faith. Thus, the plaintiff may only establish that the purchase money mortgage had priority over [defendant’s] mortgage on the basis that it was recorded first. However, the amended complaint averred that the purchase money mortgage was not recorded, and further stated that [defendant] holds a first Mortgage to the property.” Carrion v 162 Pulaski LLC, 2014 NY Slip Op 03470, 2nd Dept 5-14-14

 

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