A hotel investment firm and its founder have settled claims brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission accusing the company of raising about $86 million through "deceptive conduct," with a Texas fe... (more story)

Attorneys for the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces in New Mexico clashed with the government Friday over reports that Border Patrol contractors are already working on a stretch of church-owned land the governmen... (more story)

Organizers of an annual conference focused on the EB-5 investment visa program stressed a theme of optimism at the event last week in Miami, but even as the program appears to have overcome many of its own pas... (more story)

A redevelopment firm that admitted it commenced demolition work at a former automotive plant in Saginaw, Michigan, without first remediating asbestos was sentenced Friday to pay a $500,000 criminal fine and se... (more story)

A pair of well-known Boston real estate developers claimed in a lawsuit Friday that Eastern Bank and debt marketplace DebtX publicly disclosed personal financial statements they had submitted in support of a c... (more story)

A Washington federal judge Friday undid a $630 million settlement in a timeshare consumer class action, deeming it a "blank check" agreement based on unreliable damages estimates that the litigation parties re... (more story)

A Texas bankruptcy judge signed off Friday on retailer Saks Global's Chapter 11 plan, allowing the debtor to cut most of its existing debt and borrow $500 million in new money to support an effort to revitalize its business.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up a long-running dispute between a city in the Florida Keys and landowners over increasingly restrictive zoning, leaving in place a decision that said the cit... (more story)

The Ninth Circuit reinstated a proposed class action against Keller Williams Realty and an Arizona real estate solutions company over phone calls and texts asking a woman about selling her home, ruling she suf... (more story)

A plan released last week offers the most complete vision yet for how Mayor Zohran Mamdani plans to confront New York City’s housing affordability crisis. Nora Martins, a New York land use and zoning partner a... (more story)

A Georgia developer will pay a $1 million fine and help to repatriate Indigenous remains and artifacts after the United States alleged the company continued to build homes for a 2,230-acre development on a flo... (more story)

An Illinois federal judge rejected Zillow's attempt to force Compass and a Midwest multiple listing service to disclose their communications with each other, finding the request was "unduly burdensome."

Gibson Dunn and Seyfarth Shaw are among the law firms that have made recent real estate or construction hires.

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. takes Taylor Morrison Home Corp. private, global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson forms a residential joint venture with Nether... (more story)