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Redevelopment Offers Opportunity To Allay Impact Of Tariffs

As global tariffs continue to create pricing uncertainties, adaptive reuse of existing buildings is offering developers pathways to minimize tariff-induced price spikes, one of Greenberg Traurig's real estate leaders told Law360 in an interview earlier this week.

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NYC, LA Office Markets Outpace Chicago And Houston In Q3

The office markets in Manhattan and Los Angeles showed resilience in the third quarter as availability rates in those areas dropped sharply from a year earlier, while downtown Chicago and Houston have shown little change in availability rates over the past 12 months, according to recent data from Savills.

These Law Firms Led Q3's Top Real Estate M&A Deals

Gibson Dunn, Thompson Hine, DLA Piper, Hogan Lovells and Skadden are among the nearly two dozen law firms that guided the biggest real estate mergers in the third quarter, including a $5.5 billion real estate investment trust acquisition.

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Preventing HOA Bias After Wash. Ruling Highlights Risk

Brett Sullivan

Because homeowners nationwide can now draw on precedent from a recent Washington state appellate decision holding ... (more story)

Tracking The 2027 Va. Bills That May Tighten Data Center Regs

David Schneider and Briana Becker

Data center developers and operators should monitor Virginia legislation responding to the state's new data center... (more story)

CFIUS Annual Report Reveals Enforcement Trends

Thaddeus McBride and Faith Dibble

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' recently published annual report to Congress shows that ... (more story)

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Samoan Groups Challenge Planned Deep-Sea Mining Leases

A Samoan council of chiefs and leaders from American Samoa's Manu'a Islands and two community groups are asking a Hawaiian federal court to block a plan to sell leases that will allow deep-sea mining of more t... (more story)

GFP Plans 2 Manhattan Towers, With 1 Soaring To 1,290 Feet

GFP Real Estate is planning to build a pair of residential towers in Manhattan's Financial District that would add about 4,000 new units to the city's housing stock, and Law360 Real Estate Authority has added ... (more story)

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Sens. Probe Meta For Claiming Tax Credits On AI Data Centers

Democratic senators called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain why he's justifying the use of billions in federal research tax credits to pay for building the company's AI data centers, warning that doing s... (more story)

Hunton Adds Husch Blackwell Commercial Litigator In Dallas

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP said it has added a nationally recognized litigator with nearly two decades of experience to its commercial litigation practice.

Kirkland, Clifford Chance Guide Cos.' Senior Housing Deal

Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP and senior housing asset manager ReNew have formed a partnership, guided by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Clifford Chance LLP, and invested in a 45-property, 4,500-unit U.S. s... (more story)

Ohio Justices Say Moratorium Ends Data Center Site Plan

The Ohio Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously rejected a data center developer's call to force Lordstown, Ohio, to consider a plan for a project submitted days before the village council enacted a ban on the c... (more story)

Simpson Thacher, A&O Guide CBRE's £760M Onnec Buy

Real estate giant CBRE said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire data center infrastructure services provider Onnec, in a £760 million ($1 billion) deal guided by Simpson Thacher and A&O Shearman.

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NJ Panel Revives Hill Wallack Malpractice Suit

A New Jersey state appeals court panel ruled Tuesday that a trial court must rethink its dismissal of a suit accusing Hill Wallack LLP of mishandling the defense of a family facing labor trafficking allegation... (more story)

RE Firm Settles Suit Over $200M Contaminated NC Homes Buy

A real estate firm has settled its North Carolina federal suit alleging a multifamily property owner and its affiliates wrongfully kept $2 million in earnest money deposits even after the firm learned of conta... (more story)

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NYC Fights To Avoid Restarting 2nd-Home Tax Rollout

New York City asked a state appeals court to reverse a decision finding it must restart the rollout of its tax on high-value second homes, saying a group of property owners' complaints weren't fit for court review.

Colo. Justices Agree To Hear Short-Term Rental Fee Challenge

The Colorado Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear, as a matter of first impression, a rental owner's challenge to the town of Breckenridge's imposition of a regulatory fee on obtaining or renewing licenses f... (more story)

Compass Retaliates With MLS Suit In Listing Access Fight

Brokerage Compass shot back at the country's second-largest multiple listing service in California federal court with a lawsuit arguing that rules prohibiting home marketing methods off the online platform are... (more story)

Rosenberg & Estis Launches NYC Pied-À-Terre Tax Resource

Rosenberg & Estis PC has launched a new web page that aims to provide legal analysis and guidance regarding New York City's luxury second-homes tax, also known as the pied-à-terre tax, the firm announced Monday.

Ex-NYC Pol Denies Bribery Charges As Corruption Trial Opens

Counsel for Eric Ulrich, former commissioner of the New York City Department of Buildings, told a state judge Monday that prosecutors wrongly branded his long-standing borrowing from "friends and confidants" a... (more story)