CFIUS, which is housed in the U.S. Treasury Department, generates an annual report to Congress that focuses on reviewing deals involving purchases of U.S. businesses, but does not include details on what factors are considered during its reviews. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

CFIUS Report Says More On Real Estate Than Meets The Eye

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' latest report to Congress shows no significant change in the number of real estate-related cases the committee reviewed in 2023, but that does not mean properties weren't on the government's radar, attorneys say.

Weyerhaeuser also announced a $244 million purchase of 84,300 acres of timberland in Alabama, having closed out $48 million of the larger deal and expecting to finalize the rest by year's end. (Photo by Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)

Weyerhaeuser CEO Expects Single-Family Sector To 'Hold Up'

Weyerhaeuser Co. is confident the single-family market will hold up in the third quarter despite slumping sales as high mortgage rates persist, the lumber real estate investment trust said on its quarterly earnings call Friday.

Harbor view of Providence, Rhode Island, is pictured. A Rhode Island judge this found in favor of beachfront property owners, saying that a legislators' decision to move public beach access from the mean tide line to as much as 70 feet landward amounted to a taking. (iStock)

How Hinckley Allen Took On Rhode Island Beach-Access Law

A Rhode Island judge this month sided with beachfront property owners, represented by Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP, ruling that a 2023 law that shifts the public access line landward amounts to a taking.

Expert Analysis

Tips For Lenders Offering Texas Home Equity Lines Of Credit

Tye McWhorter

As interest in home equity lines of credit increases, lenders seeking to utilize such products in Texas must be aw... (more story)

Kentucky Tax Talk: Appeals Court Revisits Leases' Tax Effects


With better facts and greater emphasis on the Kentucky Constitution, Walgreen Co. may succeed in its latest Kentuc... (more story)

Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: July Lessons

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In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy considers cases touching on pre- and... (more story)

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Matterport Stockholder Sues In Del. For Books On Merger

A shareholder of 3D-imaging and digitization venture Matterport Inc. has launched a Delaware Court of Chancery lawsuit seeking company documents, citing concerns that the business was selling itself to global ... (more story)

Kuwait-Linked Firm Forecloses On $124.5M FiDi Office Loan

InterVest Capital Partners, a firm supported by Kuwait's public pension fund, has sued in New York state court to foreclose on a $124.5 million loan for a 47-story office tower at 30 Broad Street in New York's... (more story)

Digital Realty's CEO told analysts on Friday that the REIT is seeing more constraints on available power for data centers in such high-demand places as Northern Virginia and California's Silicon Valley. (iStock)
Digital Realty Watches For Power Constraints On Projects

Digital Realty has its eye on the possibility that pressures on electrical networks might create delays for the company's pipeline of new data centers, the real estate investment trust's CEO said in an earnings call.

DC Circ. Won't Stave Off Amtrak's Union Station Takeover

The D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected an emergency bid to stop Amtrak from taking control of Washington, D.C.'s Union Station, but did not dismiss the case outright, ruling that efforts to stop the eminent domai... (more story)

Queens Class A Industrial Building Earns $85M In Financing

Marcus & Millichap affiliate IPA Capital Markets said it arranged $85 million in financing for a two-story Class A industrial property in Queens, New York.

Robinson+Cole Adds Ex-Bose Atty To Mass. Real Estate Team

Robinson+Cole hired Kimberly A. Sigler, the former Bose Corp. assistant general counsel and a company director, as a partner for its real estate group in Boston, the firm announced.

Real Estate Investment Firm Buys Miami Beach Retail Property

Torose Equities acquired an 8,700-square-foot, single-tenant retail property located at 910 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Florida, the real estate investment firm announced Friday.

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Short-Term Rental Group Defends Colo. City Ordinance Suit

A group of short-term rental owners in Colorado urged a federal court on Thursday to reject a city's bid to dismiss their suit, which claims a 2023 ordinance that regulates where short-term rentals can operate... (more story)

Calif. Community Org Opposes FCC Bulk Billing Clampdown

A technology-focused community group in California has joined a chorus of advocates calling for the Federal Communications Commission to hit the brakes on a proposal to tighten rules for bulk billing in multit... (more story)

McGough Construction has won a $94 million contract from the U.S. General Services Administration to replace the "outmoded" facilities of a Dunseith, North Dakota, land port entry. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
Property Plays: Pretium, United Center, 830 Brickell

Property Plays is a weekly roundup of the latest loans, leases, sales and projects around the country. Send your tips — all confidential — to realestate@law360.com.

Chubb Unit Asks 11th Circ. To Undo $13.8M Appraisal Award

A Chubb unit asked the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to reverse the approval of a Florida condominium association's $13.8 million appraisal award for hurricane damage sustained in 2017, arguing that a lower court... (more story)

Insurers See Losses Amid Migration To Severe Weather States

Population migration into parts of the U.S. with more severe weather is one factor driving the worst U.S. homeowner's insurance underwriting results since at least 2000, according to a report on the insurance ... (more story)

Newsom Cites High Court In Ordering Encampments Cleared

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday ordered state agencies to start removing homeless encampments on state property while providing outreach services to homeless residents following a recent U.S. Supreme ... (more story)

Mr. Cooper Picks Up Flagstar Resi Mortgage Unit For $1.4B

Flagstar Bank NA announced Thursday that it has inked a $1.4 billion deal to sell its residential mortgage servicing business to nonbank mortgage originator Mr. Cooper, as Flagstar and parent New York Communit... (more story)