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  • November 14, 2025

    Tendit, Ex-CEO Settle Rent Dispute Lawsuit

    A facility services company and its former CEO reached a settlement that "reflects no admission of liability by any party" last month to resolve a lawsuit between the two in which the company said the former executive increased the company's rent with her real estate business before resigning.

  • November 14, 2025

    Texas Justices Wall Off Shareholder Claims Against 3rd Party

    The Texas Supreme Court found that individual shareholders have no right to bring direct claims against an outside party that has an agreement with the shareholders' company, saying Friday that they instead must file suit on behalf of the company they hold ownership in.

  • November 14, 2025

    Real Estate Recap: Public RMBS Revival?

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission veteran's view into how public offerings of residential mortgage-backed securities could return for the first time since financial crisis-era reforms.

  • November 14, 2025

    7th Circ. Wary Of Takings Challenge To Chicago Tenant Law

    A Seventh Circuit judge on Friday pressed counsel for a building owner, which opposes a Chicago law requiring owners of foreclosed rental properties to pay tenants a relocation fee or offer a new lease, to address the limits of its argument that those fees are an unconstitutional taking of its property.

  • November 14, 2025

    NC Coastal Erosion Spurs Call For Proactive Flood Coverage

    North Carolina's governor and the state insurance commissioner are calling on Congress to pass a bill that would cover homes on the brink of collapsing into the ocean under the National Flood Insurance Program — a problem currently plaguing the state's shoreline, where coastal erosion has claimed 27 homes along the Outer Banks since 2020.

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