Practical Law Glossary Item 5-383-2167 (Approx. 2 pages)
Glossary
Bona Fide Purchaser
Also known as BFP, bona fide purchaser for value, good-faith purchaser, innocent purchaser for value, purchaser in good faith. Innocent purchaser of property who purchases for value without notice of any other party’s claim against the property. So long as a bona fide purchaser properly records the transaction, the bona fide purchaser takes good title to the property despite competing adverse claims. Those parties holding competing adverse claims may bring an action only against the party who fraudulently transferred the property to the bona fide purchaser.