S. Florida Confronts A True Ripple Effect In Real Estate Crush
Much attention has focused on how the migration of wealth to South Florida has driven up real estate values and spurred construction, especially at the highest reaches of the residential market, but the impact also extends beyond dry land.
1 Year Later, How Tariffs Have Crept Into Real Estate Contracts
In the year since President Donald Trump's Rose Garden announcement of sweeping worldwide tariffs last April, real estate and construction lawyers have wrestled with how duties or potential duties fit into clients' deals, and sources recently shared more than half a dozen contract examples from the past year with Law360 Real Estate Authority.
Hotels And Landlords Get Set For FIFA World Cup
With the FIFA Men's World Cup beginning in less than three months, hotels and real estate owners have for years been laying the groundwork to make the most of the expected burst of economic activity, despite more recent concerns over immigration policies and geopolitical turmoil.
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A former Englander & Fischer LLP attorney with more than four decades of experience has joined Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP as an of counsel in its office in St. Petersburg, Florida, the firm announced Friday.
Real estate investment trust Welltower Inc.'s chief legal officer pulled in about $93.5 million in 2025, amid what the company's chair called a "marquee year" for the REIT.
Clifford Chance, Wachtell and DLA Piper are among more than two dozen law firms that guided the biggest real estate and hospitality mergers announced in the first quarter, with the largest deal exceeding $10 billion.
Holland & Knight LLP told a Texas state court Thursday that transactional advice it gave years ago cannot form the basis of a malpractice suit because the statute of limitations expired, saying the two-year cl... (more story)
Bass Berry & Sims PLC is advising Whitestone REIT on its planned $1.7 billion sale to Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised Ares Management Corp., in a take-private deal announced Thursday by the Houston-based retail r... (more story)
La Caisse, guided by Jones Day, and Prologis Inc., led by Linklaters LLP, have linked up to form a €1 billion ($1.17 billion) platform to buy, build and run logistics properties across Europe, the companies said Thursday.
In the latest hire for its fast-growing South Florida offices, Leech Tishman has added an experienced real estate and litigation partner from recently shuttered Taylor Duma LLP.
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A union pension fund that tried to collect more than $1 million in withdrawal liability after a printing company ceased operations failed to prove that a holding company was a trade or business, a New Jersey f... (more story)
A Missouri federal judge refused Thursday to let a Berkshire Hathaway unit duck an antitrust lawsuit over real estate broker compensation rules, concluding the company cannot use its relationship with subsidia... (more story)
Carmel Partners managed to raise $1.35 billion for its U.S. multifamily real estate fund, which has been used to buy nine properties, the real estate investment management company announced Tuesday.
Property listing giants Zillow and Redfin asked a Virginia federal court to let them use a recent Fourth Circuit ruling for an NCAA case to bolster their dismissal bid against antitrust claims filed by the Fed... (more story)
Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday for signing off on a 10,000-acre residential and commercial development project in Southwest Florida that the groups say will destroy th... (more story)
A split Fourth Circuit panel Wednesday revived a widow's suit alleging she was coerced into giving up her claims against the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, after her home was flooded with raw sewage, findi... (more story)
A Florida state appeals court issued a split opinion Wednesday upholding a lower court decision favoring a commercial developer in a dispute over the construction of a pump station, ruling a city can't rely on... (more story)