Elections Haven't Had Much Immediate Real Estate Impact
Turning Tides: Real Estate's Impending Insurance Crisis
Where BigLaw Real Estate Presidential Donations Are Going
Elections Haven't Had Much Immediate Real Estate Impact
The past six presidential elections have not had much immediate impact on commercial real estate investment, according to a report out this week from brokerage firm CBRE.
Turning Tides: Real Estate's Impending Insurance Crisis
Climate risk, once an abstract concept, is now a stark reality in the real estate industry as damage from stronger and more frequent weather events portends a drastic correction in the property insurance market. This new series explores state and local government efforts, shifting investor behavior, and home-buying trends as the climate-driven insurance crisis bubbles to the surface.
Where BigLaw Real Estate Presidential Donations Are Going
Law360 examined presidential campaign contributions from over 1,000 BigLaw real estate attorneys to see where that slice of the legal community is sending its support. Here's what we found.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's review of its preemption interpretations and growing pressure from... (more story)
Recently proposed regulations expanding the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' oversight, a Whi... (more story)
There is a wide array of financial incentives and assistance that the government can provide to both real estate d... (more story)
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Local officials are fielding a developer's request to build some 1,700 housing units on a vacant golf course in east San Jose, California, which is one of the largest development sites in the Silicon Valley area.
The owner of a property leased to Red Lobster said a Zurich unit negligently failed to name the owner on settlement checks issued to the eatery after a fire, telling a New Jersey federal court the failure allo... (more story)
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Honigman LLP said on Friday it has hired Christopher Mull, who previously worked as an associate at Goodwin Proctor LLP, as a partner in its real estate transactions practice group in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
A social media influencer faces criminal charges and a suit from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after he allegedly made false claims to investors that money put into purported real estate projects... (more story)
The landlords of 30 SQRL fuel station and convenience store locations are urging a Texas federal bankruptcy court to allow them to avoid an automatic stay that they allege is blocking them from taking ownershi... (more story)
The Ninth Circuit affirmed Thursday a decision tossing a Hollywood hotel developer's $100 million racketeering suit against rival hotel developers, rejecting the plaintiff developer's allegations that its com... (more story)
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A California federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of a class of disabled homeless military veterans alleging that they're facing disability discrimination due to the lack of permanent supportive housing on a... (more story)
An entity that sold a nursing home is entitled to keep attorney fees because the underlying contract spelled out that it was entitled to them, a Texas appeals court found, even though the eventual buyer was no... (more story)
In a Thursday report to Congress, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said rent-setting algorithms of the sort used by RealPage could amount to price-fixing, making efforts to collect on inflated rental d... (more story)
A property management company is not owed coverage from two excess insurers in an underlying multidistrict litigation surrounding allegations of a price-fixing conspiracy involving software company RealPage In... (more story)
A Pennsylvania borough accused its insurer-retained counsel of committing legal malpractice by consummating a settlement acting against its wishes in an underlying "baseless" lawsuit brought by a borough counc... (more story)
A North Carolina Business Court judge on Friday ordered MV Realty to produce its CEO's emails as part of Attorney General Josh Stein's lawsuit accusing the company of locking homeowners in fraudulent deals to ... (more story)
The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a New Jersey bankruptcy court to dismiss a Chapter 11 petition from McElroy Deutsch Mulvaney & Carpenter LLP's former CFO, who is currently incarcerated for embezzling milli... (more story)