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CONSOLIDATED MORTGAGES CONSIDERED FIRST MORTGAGE OF RECORD WITH PRIORITY OVER COMMON CHARGES LIEN.

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge DiFiore, determined a lien for unpaid (condominium) common charges did not take priority over the second of two Citibank mortgages which were consolidated. Plaintiff was the winning bidder in a foreclosure action commenced by the condominium board for unpaid common charges. Plaintiff took the property subject to the “first mortgage of record.” Years before the common charges lien two mortgages taken out by the previous condominium owner had been consolidated. Plaintiff argued the second of those two consolidated mortgages should be extinguished by the foreclosure action because, by statute, the lien for the common charges was subject only to the “first mortgage of record.” The Court of Appeals held the two consolidated mortgages should be considered the “first mortgage” in this context:

Given the practical realities of this case, … the agreement between Citibank and the previous unit owner to consolidate the mortgages “into a single mortgage lien,” recorded years before the common charges lien, qualifies as “the first mortgage of record.” To hold otherwise places form over substance. Indeed, the ease with which a formulaic application of the term “first mortgage of record” can be manipulated demonstrates that such holding would not promote the statutory purpose. Plotch v Citibank, N.A., 2016 NY Slip Op 03648, CtApp 5-10-16

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