Expert Analysis

Md. Ruling Spotlights Source-Of-Income Discrimination

In Hare v. David S. Brown Enterprises, the Maryland Supreme Court recently ruled that landlords cannot impose inco... (more story)

Colo. Law Brings Some Equilibrium To Condo Defect Reform

Colorado's American Dream Act, effective next year, does not eliminate litigation risk for developers entirely, bu... (more story)

A Primer For Lenders On NY's New Mortgage Disclosure Regs

A recent New York regulation requiring licensed lenders and mortgage bankers to distribute a significant new discl... (more story)

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Prologis Eyeing 'The Art Of The Possible' For Data Centers

Prologis Inc. is bullish on data center development in the near term and said on its recent quarterly earnings call that spending $3 billion a year in data center starts would be "very easy" for the real estat... (more story)

Stearns Weaver Adds Phelps Real Estate Ace In Tampa

Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson PA has picked up a new of counsel for its Tampa office, adding an attorney from Phelps Dunbar LLP who is experienced in transactional real estate matters.

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Over A Dozen Firms Have Aided Top Real Estate Deals Of 2025

Stibbe and A&O Shearman are among the law firms that helped with the 10 largest global real estate mergers and acquisitions through the third quarter.

2 Firms Steer $4.2B Mandarin Oriental Buyout

Hong Kong-based conglomerate Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd. said Friday it will acquire the remaining 11.96% of Mandarin Oriental International Ltd. that it does not already own, valuing the luxury hotel opera... (more story)

Steptoe Hires Corporate, Energy, Transactions Partner

Steptoe LLP has hired the former lead land use and real estate counsel for Florida's almost $3 billion I-4 ultimate highway reconstruction project, who has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., transactions prac... (more story)

Taxation With Representation: Latham, Kirkland, Wachtell

In this week's Taxation With Representation, the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Partnership, MGX, and BlackRock's Global Infrastructure Partners acquire Aligned Data Centers from Macquarie Asset Manage... (more story)

CBRM Lenders Seek To Nix Ch. 11 Case

The prepetition lenders to bankrupt affiliates of troubled real estate firm CBRM Realty Inc. have asked a New Jersey bankruptcy court to dismiss the Chapter 11, saying that the real goal of the case is to "vau... (more story)

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Feds Say Housing Activist Used Homeless For Medicaid Fraud

Federal prosecutors in North Carolina have accused a Charlotte housing advocate of using the Medicaid beneficiary numbers of unhoused individuals to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar fraud on the government, c... (more story)

Why Ethics Complaints Against Halligan Face 'Very High Bar'

Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan for the Eastern District of Virginia could face bar disciplinary action or court sanctions if the prosecutions she's pursuing at President Donald Trump's behest are found... (more story)

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How Brownfield Legislation Can Spur More Housing In Calif.

The extension of a key legal tool in California for easing development on contaminated sites can relieve the state's housing shortage, though more work can be done to improve the legislation and make it work b... (more story)

Ex-Va. Federal Prosecutor Joins NY AG James' Defense Team

The former deputy criminal chief for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Norfolk, Virginia, Thursday joined the team defending New York Attorney General Letitia James in the government's case accusing her of mortgag... (more story)

LA Developers Charged In Homeless Housing Fund Fraud

A pair of real estate developers have been charged in separate fraud cases alleging that they misused millions of dollars meant to build and operate affordable housing for people experiencing homelessness, the... (more story)

Insurers Settle Bid To Arbitrate $7M La. Hurricane Ida Case

A group of domestic and foreign insurers including underwriters at Lloyd's of London have asked a Louisiana federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit seeking an order to arbitrate a $7 million Hurricane Ida damag... (more story)

Latham Guides $1.8B Deal For Spanish Senior Home Operator

The real estate arm of StepStone Group Inc. and European real estate investment firm Greykite have announced a €1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) deal to acquire and recapitalize Vitalia, Spain's second largest owner... (more story)