Iran Conflict Reveals Real Estate Risk And Resilience
The Iran conflict's impact on U.S. commercial real estate so far has been limited, but some real estate and construction attorneys in the U.S. and the Middle East are seeing early consequences, including clients invoking force majeure provisions.
Investors Hype Senior Housing At Goodwin Conference
In what might be a sign of the times, housing and medical care facilities for elderly baby boomers shared the spotlight as today's most promising asset classes in a recent panel on real estate capital flows held by Goodwin Procter LLP and the Columbia School of Business.
Data No Longer An Afterthought In Real Estate
Data is an increasingly important component of the real estate business, informing operations and helping to shape expansion strategy and acquisitions. Its custodianship, legal structure, licensing agreements and the contracts governing data performance and use are all important points that attorneys who specialize in technology transactions negotiate.
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New Jersey high court justices on Monday appeared skeptical that the township of Jackson properly used eminent domain when it combined condemned land with other public property in an exchange for land intended... (more story)
Harfenist Kraut and Windels Marx are among the law firms that steered the largest New York City real estate deals that became public last week, with trades in Queens and Manhattan leading the way.
JPMorgan's construction debt on the books rose by a whopping $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 while Wells Fargo pared its construction loans by that same amount, marking divergent major moves on hold... (more story)
The owner of a mixed-use building in Manhattan's SoHo neighborhood has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with more than $30.6 million in liabilities, according to a petition filed in New York bankruptcy court.
The Internal Revenue Service violated the Seventh Amendment by imposing civil fraud penalties without a jury first reviewing them, a partnership told the Fifth Circuit, arguing the penalties' common-law roots ... (more story)
Public Storage Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire National Storage Affiliates Trust at an enterprise value of about $10.5 billion, with three law firms advising the REITs as they seek to create one of t... (more story)
Senior housing-focused real estate investment trust Janus Living said Monday that it is seeking about $700 million in an initial public offering this week, advised by Latham & Watkins LLP and Sidley Austin LLP... (more story)
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A Nevada federal judge has granted class certification in an action accusing a Realtor of using robocalls to contact people on the National Do Not Call Registry in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protectio... (more story)
A group of 15 states and the District of Columbia claimed on Monday that the Trump administration is undermining their enforcement of fair housing laws by threatening to cut off funding from local government ... (more story)
Among changes made last week to a bipartisan housing bill intended to curb institutional investors' ownership of single-family homes was one provision that could effectively stop build-to-rent housing construc... (more story)
The developer of a 900-unit housing project in the Bronx that was awarded a $55 million state grant in October has filed for bankruptcy to stop a foreclosure sale, blaming what it called "treachery" in the tra... (more story)
A North Carolina federal judge ruled that an apartment complex owner and affiliated entities can't avoid claims that they improperly held on to a potential buyer's deposit after environmental contamination thw... (more story)
On the final day of their annual regular session, Florida lawmakers passed a bill that imposes a variety of preemptions on local governments' land use review after they removed parts that threatened Miami's Ur... (more story)
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Friday that seek to get rid of certain regulations, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable housing and obtain mortgages.