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A Calif. Law May Aid Homeowner Recovery After LA Fires

Reconstruction bottlenecks following the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires mean that certain homeowners insurance... (more story)

Tracking The Rare 'Quick Look' Win In FTC's Zillow-Redfin Suit

The Federal Trade Commission’s suit claiming that Zillow illegally paid Redfin to exit the apartment rental market... (more story)

How Reserve Studies Fit Into Condo Association Compliance

In the five years since the Surfside condominium collapse and as states like New Jersey establish related safety m... (more story)

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CoStar Customers Say Antitrust Suit Must Stay In DC

Customers asked a D.C. federal court to reject CoStar's bid to transfer their proposed antitrust class action, which claims the company ran an anticompetitive scheme to protect its monopoly for commercial real... (more story)

Retail Center, AIG Unit Settle Suit Over Foundation Damage

A real estate management company has settled its suit accusing an AIG unit of failing to cover property damage at a retail complex in Calabasas, California, according to a federal court filing.

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4 Firms Advise Public Storage's $1.2B Acquisition Deal

Public Storage will acquire Public Storage Canada in a $1.2 billion cash and shares deal guided by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, Torys LLP, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP and Osler Hoskin & Har... (more story)

SpaceX Wants In On Suit Challenging Texas Land Swap Deal

SpaceX has urged a federal court in Washington to let it intervene in a lawsuit from environmental groups opposing the company's south Texas land exchange deal with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, noting its... (more story)

Easement Offers Have 'Rolling' Deadline, IRS Official Says

The 90-day window that conservation easement partnerships will have to accept an IRS deal to settle their charitable tax deduction dispute is based on the date when the taxpayer receives its settlement letter ... (more story)

SitusAMC's $5.3M Data Breach Deal Draws Judicial Scrutiny

A New York federal judge is asking the plaintiffs suing real estate finance services firm SitusAMC over a 2025 data breach for additional information about the administration and public notice of their newly d... (more story)

Eric Adams' Ex-Chief Of Staff Charged In Bribery Scheme

Frank Carone, a onetime chief of staff to former New York Mayor Eric Adams, took $120,000 in bribes to steer a multimillion-dollar contract to house migrants to a hotel owner, according to an indictment unseal... (more story)

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Conn. Justices Say Local Rent Board Can Enter Eviction Fight

The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday allowed a municipal fair rent commission to get involved in a landlord-tenant eviction action in state court, finding the local body clearly has an interest in advocat... (more story)

11th Circ. Challenges Exclusion In Arson Death Dispute

An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared skeptical of a property insurer's argument that an exclusion for a failure to maintain an apartment complex freed it from defending the owner in a wrongful death suit stemming from arson.

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JPM's Construction Debt Grows As Wells Pulls Back By $1.6B

JPMorgan's construction debt on the books rose in the first quarter while Wells Fargo continued to pare its construction debt holdings during the period, showing contrasting narratives for the nation's two big... (more story)

Zillow, Redfin Tell Court Their Partnership Is Not Illegal

Property listing companies Zillow and Redfin urged a Virginia federal court not to presume that their $100 million partnership agreement, which is being challenged by the Federal Trade Commission and multiple ... (more story)

Probe Pins Surfside Disaster On Original Design, Construction

Issues with the original design and construction of the Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, lay behind the deadly partial collapse of the building, according to final technical findings th... (more story)

Fla. Judge Says Public Can Use Beach, Owner Can Post Signs

A Florida federal judge ruled against a homeowner who alleged a town wrongfully took a portion of his beachfront real estate for public access after finding it had long been used by the public, but said he's a... (more story)

Sun Communities Names Ex-SpartanNash Legal Chief As Its GC

Sun Communities Inc. has hired the former chief legal and compliance officer of SpartanNash, a Fortune 400 food solutions company, as its new general counsel, the manufactured housing-focused real estate inves... (more story)