Trump Order On Wall Street Landlords Floats Antitrust Review
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing federal agencies to avoid supporting single-family home purchases by institutional investors, calling the practice an impediment to homeownership for U.S. families.
Real Estate Attorneys Screwup Playbook
Real estate attorneys even at the highest echelons of the legal profession make mistakes, and how those mistakes are resolved can vary as much as how they arise.
Florida Lawmakers Eye Property Tax, Housing Affordability
Real estate has found itself at the center of Florida's recent annual legislative sessions, and in what is shaping up to be a session full of intrigue, it will once again be a major focus in the just-launched 2026 edition, but with some new twists.
Trump Order On Wall Street Landlords Floats Antitrust Review
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing federal agencies to avoid supporting single-family home purchases by institutional investors, calling the practice an impediment to homeownership for U.S. families.
Real Estate Attorneys Screwup Playbook
Real estate attorneys even at the highest echelons of the legal profession make mistakes, and how those mistakes are resolved can vary as much as how they arise.
Florida Lawmakers Eye Property Tax, Housing Affordability
Real estate has found itself at the center of Florida's recent annual legislative sessions, and in what is shaping up to be a session full of intrigue, it will once again be a major focus in the just-launched 2026 edition, but with some new twists.
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A Long Island town has told a New York intermediate appellate court that the state's cannabis law cannot preempt localities from enforcing their zoning policies when it comes to allowing where marijuana stores can be located.
Emirati conglomerate Al Habtoor Group said Monday that it will step up an investment treaty dispute against Lebanon over an alleged $1.7 billion in losses to its investments in hotels, real estate and other se... (more story)
President Donald Trump's tariffs have created myriad risk allocation questions for real estate parties and, by extension, their attorneys, the American College of Real Estate Lawyers' newest president told Law... (more story)
Real estate investment trust Orion Properties Inc. said Monday that Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is advising as it explores a possible sale as part of an agreement with activist investor the Kawa Fund.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, Greenberg Traurig LLP and Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP were among the firms responsible for the largest New York City real estate deals last week, featuring a series of discount... (more story)
Secured lenders of Office Properties Income Trust filed a Chapter 11 adversary suit in Texas bankruptcy court, saying the debtor's entry into debtor-in-possession financing agreements with a separate group of ... (more story)
London-based legal technology startup Orbital, which develops artificial intelligence for real estate law, raised $60 million in a Series B funding round, according to an announcement on Monday, with the new c... (more story)
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The Eleventh Circuit declined Monday to fast-track an appeal aimed at halting a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule on clean-energy home improvement loans, rebuffing the rule's trade group challenger... (more story)
A primary insurer owes reimbursement of defense costs for several underlying lawsuits brought against a property owner and construction company that were additional insureds, another carrier told a New York fe... (more story)
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed erasing regulations that codify covert forms of discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, which attorneys say may cloud litigation and HUD discrim... (more story)
Investors in a $93 million Miami real estate development scheme are protesting a proposal by the receiver of the company's estate to hire her own law firm, increase the receiver fees and go after recipients of... (more story)
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development on Friday urged public housing authorities and property owners overseeing federally funded properties to verify the citizenship or immigration status of the... (more story)
The First Circuit backed the dismissal of a suit filed by residents of a Massachusetts town who sued over the local planning board's proposed high-density multifamily zoning district, ruling that they lacked standing to sue.
Construction equipment rental company EquipmentShare began trading Friday after raising $747 million at the midpoint of an expected range in an initial public offering guided by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and u... (more story)