Highland Village Partners, LLC v. BRADBURY & STAMM CONSTRUCTION CO.

OPINION

TIMMER, Presiding Judge.

¶ 1 In this appeal by plaintiff-appellant Highland Village Partners, L.L.C. (“Highland”), we are asked to decide whether a subsequent purchaser of commercial property can sue for breach of the implied warranty of workmanship and habitability pursuant to an express assignment of that warranty by the original owner. To resolve this issue, we consider whether our decision in Hayden Business Center Condominiums Ass’n v. Pegasus Development Corp., 209 Ariz. 511, 105 P.3d 157 (App.2005), or other authority, precludes such assignments. For the reasons that follow, we…