Iran Conflict Reveals Real Estate Risk And Resilience
The Iran conflict's impact on U.S. commercial real estate so far has been limited, but some real estate and construction attorneys in the U.S. and the Middle East are seeing early consequences, including clients invoking force majeure provisions.
Investors Hype Senior Housing At Goodwin Conference
In what might be a sign of the times, housing and medical care facilities for elderly baby boomers shared the spotlight as today's most promising asset classes in a recent panel on real estate capital flows held by Goodwin Procter LLP and the Columbia School of Business.
Data No Longer An Afterthought In Real Estate
Data is an increasingly important component of the real estate business, informing operations and helping to shape expansion strategy and acquisitions. Its custodianship, legal structure, licensing agreements and the contracts governing data performance and use are all important points that attorneys who specialize in technology transactions negotiate.
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The federal government's landlord told the federal judiciary it is "ill equipped" to have direct authority to maintain its buildings.
Walmart wants to throw out a neighboring property owner's claim that a Pittsburgh-area store breached the terms of a nearly 30-year-old easement agreement, arguing a lawsuit's allegation that it had been in vi... (more story)
JPMorgan's construction debt on the books rose by a whopping $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 while Wells Fargo pared its construction loans by that same amount, marking divergent major moves on hold... (more story)
Nixon Peabody LLP has hired two veteran real estate attorneys for counsel roles in its San Francisco and Washington, D.C., locations, the firm announced.
The owner of two Chicago hotels can access its senior lender's cash collateral to fund its Chapter 11 case, a Delaware bankruptcy judge said Friday, while a decision on BY Hotel SPE-3 LLC's proposed $1 million... (more story)
Esquire Financial Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy the parent company of Signature Bank in a roughly $348.4 million deal that Esquire said will help expand its Chicago-area commercial banking presence and suppo... (more story)
Capital spending on data centers, the facilities' equipment and infrastructure, is likely to balloon to $700 billion this year for the six U.S. hyperscalers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms... (more story)
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The Kansas House of Representatives did not move forward a resolution that would have capped property assessment increases at 3% if approved by voters.
Slate Property Group and Avenue Realty Capital acquired a New York City multifamily rental building for $32 million, the latest for the partners who have joined forces for a series of acquisitions and developm... (more story)
Among changes made last week to a bipartisan housing bill intended to curb institutional investors' ownership of single-family homes was one provision that could effectively stop build-to-rent housing construc... (more story)
The U.S. Senate passed landmark legislation Thursday aimed at boosting housing supply and cutting housing costs across the country, with steep bipartisan support despite concerns over a provision that stakehol... (more story)
The board of directors for Texas-based developer Stratus Properties Inc. have decided that the company must liquidate its assets and dissolve in a liquidation plan guided by Jones Walker LLP, Sidley Austin LLP... (more story)
The Federal Circuit on Thursday backed a lower court ruling that tossed a suit filed by investors who claimed the Maryland federal court wrongfully refused to return seized assets that were taken to satisfy it... (more story)
A home seller can pursue claims he would not have sold his Miami Beach property for $13 million had he known it was going to a straw buyer planning to flip the property a year later, a Florida appeals court ru... (more story)