
Ripe For Revitalization, Owners Transform Class B Malls
Class B malls are the subject of renewed focus as owners and developers add residential, hotel, medical, entertainment, and food and dining uses to properties in an effort to reverse sinking vacancy rates at the decades-old assets.

Equity Sees Housing Shortage As Shield Against Uncertainty
Equity Residential executives on Wednesday said the rental giant in the first quarter saw record-low levels of resident turnover along with higher year-over-year occupancy, and is expecting a lack of U.S. housing supply to insulate from unfolding economic uncertainty.

Real Estate Sees Action-Packed First 100 Days Of Trump
The real estate sector — from which President Donald Trump hails — has not been spared an onslaught of significant policy changes as the new administration marks its first 100 days, including tariffs, a federal office slim-down and an effort to curb diverse hiring programs.
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Arizona misinterpreted federal law and threatened the sovereignty of a Native American tribe with its taxation of a natural-gas-powered plant that sits on a reservation, the tribe told the U.S. Supreme Court i... (more story)
Real estate private equity firm KHP Capital Partners said Wednesday that former Goodwin Procter LLP real estate partner Alex Lewis will become the firm's executive vice president and general counsel.

Executives across a wide range of real estate industries recently said President Donald Trump's tariffs would result in cost increases — some providing single-digit expected jumps — and some companies have bee... (more story)
A Texas appellate court revoked its prior ruling and backed a lower court ruling that allowed an attorney acting as a receiver in one suit to take over as counsel in another suit for a company belonging to rea... (more story)
The General Services Administration has selected Easterly Government Properties Inc. to build a new federal courthouse in Oregon and inked a 20-year, noncancelable lease for the site once construction is compl... (more story)
K&L Gates LLP announced it has brought on a former White & Case LLP attorney as a partner for its energy, infrastructure and resources team in its Melbourne, Australia, office.
An Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. executive said during a Tuesday earnings call that tariffs "are not expected to have a material influence" on the yields of the current development and redevelopment pro... (more story)
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Altus Equity Group Inc. said it has partnered up with real estate private equity firm Wellings Capital to acquire a 1,225-unit portfolio of six West Texas apartment communities in a deal guided by Phillips Mur... (more story)
Justices at the Ohio Supreme Court affirmed a regulatory board's approval of a 350-megawatt solar farm that some Licking County neighbors opposed – though one justice said the company developing it should have... (more story)

Developer PMG obtained a $413 million construction loan for the developer's luxury, mixed-use One Twenty Brickell Residences project in Miami in a deal guided by PMG's in-house counsel, Kramer Levin Naftalis &... (more story)
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and a Houston-based real estate developer asked a Texas federal judge Tuesday to pause the bureau's reverse redlining suit so they can engage in mediation to resolve the case.
Aspen Specialty Insurance Co. and a Nashville condominium association have agreed to end their dispute over coverage for nearly $11 million in damages caused by the 2020 Christmas Day bombing in the city, endi... (more story)
Executives of healthcare real estate investment trust Welltower on Tuesday touted the company's work closing more acquisitions during this year's first quarter than it did in all of 2024, ahead of expected eco... (more story)
A Florida state court judge certified a class of more than 140 Miami residents displaced in a condominium fire in a lawsuit alleging the structure was not safely maintained, ruling that the case will proceed m... (more story)