REPORT TITLE:
Condominium; Leasehold


DESCRIPTION:
Establishes a fair market value standard (FMVS) for appraising
the leased fee interest of condo and co-op housing corporations
for leases that do not specify an appraisal standard and for
leases on or after effective date of this Act; allows FMVS if
lessor and lessee agree for leases prior to date of this Act.
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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           S.D. 1
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 2000                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO RESIDENTIAL LEASE-TO-FEE CONVERSION.


BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that a standard is needed
 
 2 to clarify the conditions in which a fee simple owner offers a
 
 3 leased fee interest in condominiums and cooperative housing
 
 4 corporations to be purchased by a lessee.  The appraisal of these
 
 5 properties should be based on their fair market value to ensure
 
 6 equity and fairness in the process.
 
 7      One method to accomplish this purpose would be to first
 
 8 calculate the fair market value of the real property.  After
 
 9 determining the total interest of the fee owner, this percentage
 
10 of the property would be assigned to determine proportionate
 
11 percentages of ownership between the fee owner and the lessee.
 
12      The purpose of this Act is to establish a fair market value
 
13 standard for determining the value of the leased fee interest to
 
14 be purchased by a lessee.
 
15      SECTION 2.  Chapter 514C, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is
 
16 amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated
 
17 and to read as follows:
 
18      "§514C-     Appraisal method for condominium and cooperative
 
19 housing corporation lease-to-fee conversion.  (a)  All leases,
 
20 including subleases executed by a condominium or cooperative
 

 
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 1 housing corporation as lessee, and subleases acquired by a
 
 2 condominium or cooperative housing corporation by assignment,
 
 3 executed prior to the effective date of this Act, that establish
 
 4 within the lease or sublease an appraisal method for determining
 
 5 the value of the lease-to-fee conversion, may use the following
 
 6 fair market value conversion appraisal method to compute the
 
 7 value of a lease-to-fee conversion:
 
 8      (1)  A state licensed real estate appraiser shall determine
 
 9           the fair market value of the leased fee interest using
 
10           generally accepted appraisal methods in conformance
 
11           with the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal
 
12           Practice (USPAP); and
 
13      (2)  The lessee's interest shall be determined in
 
14           conformance with the USPAP.  The fee owner's total
 
15           interest in the property shall be determined by
 
16           deducting the lessee's interest from the fair market
 
17           value;
 
18 so long as all parties to the lease agree to the use of this
 
19 method.
 
20      (b)  All leases, including subleases executed by a
 
21 condominium or cooperative housing corporation as lessee and
 
22 subleases acquired by a condominium or cooperative housing
 
23 corporation by assignment executed: 
 

 
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 1      (1)  On or subsequent to this Act; or
 
 2      (2)  Prior to this Act that do not specify an appraisal
 
 3           method in the lease;
 
 4 shall use the fair market value conversion appraisal method set
 
 5 forth in subsection (a) to compute the value of a lease-to-fee
 
 6 conversion.
 
 7      (c)  For purposes of this section:
 
 8      "Lease" or "sublease" means a conveyance of land or an
 
 9 interest in land, by a fee simple owner as lessor, or by a lessee
 
10 or sublessee as sublessor, to any person, in consideration of a
 
11 return of rent or other recompense, for a term, measured from the
 
12 initial date of the lease or sublease, of twenty years or more,
 
13 including any periods for which the lease may be extended or
 
14 renewed at the option of the lessee.
 
15      "Lessee" means any person to whom land is leased or
 
16 subleased, and the lessee's heirs, successors, legal
 
17 representatives, and assigns.
 
18      (d)  This section shall not apply to lease-to-fee conversion
 
19 through condemnation."
 
20      SECTION 3.  New statutory material is underscored.
 
21      SECTION 4.  This Act shall take effect upon its approval.