The recordation pursuant to § 55.1-600, in the county or city in which the real property is located, of any deed, deed of trust, or other instrument granting, transferring, or assigning the interest of the grantor, transferor, assignor, pledgor, or lessor in leases, rents, or profits arising from the real property described in such deed, deed of trust, or other instrument shall fully perfect the interest of the grantee, transferee, assignee, or pledgee as to the assignor and all third parties without the necessity of (i) furnishing notice to the assignor or lessee, (ii) obtaining possession of the real property, (iii) impounding the rents, (iv) securing the appointment of a receiver, or (v) taking any other affirmative action. The lessee is authorized to pay the assignor until the lessee receives written notification that rents due or to become due have been assigned and that payment is to be made to the assignee.
1992, c. 67, § 55-220.1; 1993, c. 427; 2019, c. 712.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 55.1 - Property and Conveyances
Chapter 14 - Nonresidential Tenancies
§ 55.1-1400. Applicability; right to terminate tenant
§ 55.1-1402. Apportionment on purchase of part of land by holder of rent
§ 55.1-1403. Perfection of lien or interest in leases, rents, and profits
§ 55.1-1405. Transfer of deposits upon purchase
§ 55.1-1406. Grantees and assignees have same rights against lessees as lessors
§ 55.1-1407. Lessees have same rights against grantees as against lessors
§ 55.1-1408. What powers to pass to grantee or devisee; when attornment unnecessary
§ 55.1-1409. When attornment void
§ 55.1-1412. Security systems for nonresidential rental property
§ 55.1-1414. Abandonment of nonresidential rental property
§ 55.1-1415. Failure to pay certain rents after five days' notice forfeits right of possession
§ 55.1-1417. Who may recover rent or possession
§ 55.1-1418. Remedy when rent is to be paid in other thing than money
§ 55.1-1419. Proceedings to establish right of reentry; judgment
§ 55.1-1420. When defendant barred of relief
§ 55.1-1421. How trustee or mortgagee relieved from the forfeiture
§ 55.1-1422. How owner relieved in court
§ 55.1-1423. How judgment of forfeiture prevented
§ 55.1-1424. When action for reentry brought
§ 55.1-1425. Written act of reentry to be returned and recorded and certificate of reentry published
§ 55.1-1427. How person entitled to lands may be restored to his possession
§ 55.1-1428. Limitation of action against person in possession by reentry