Luxury, Group Travel Bolster Hotel Outlook After Bumpy Q3
Leading hotel operators and real estate investment trusts have reported a mix of results for the third quarter in recent earnings calls, pointing to luxury travelers and future group bookings as the biggest positives in the face of softening in the broader leisure segment and uneven business travel demand amid ongoing economic uncertainty.
Latham Atty Talks SEC's Bid To Revive Public RMBS
There hasn't been a public offering of residential mortgage-backed securities since financial crisis-era reforms dissuaded the market from issuing them, but that may change under the current administration, said a veteran of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission who recently joined Latham & Watkins LLP.
Big Brokers Say Office, Industrial Leasing Driving Q3 Gains
Commercial real estate executives reported steady revenue growth in the third quarter of 2025, buoyed by strong leasing activity across the office and industrial sectors that, in some cases, set records among the major brokers.
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The Texas Supreme Court found that individual shareholders have no right to bring direct claims against an outside party that has an agreement with the shareholders' company, saying Friday that they instead mu... (more story)
A New Jersey bankruptcy judge ordered Chinese state-owned construction firm CCA Construction to engage in mediation with BML Properties, the developer of the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas, as BML seeks to enf... (more story)
Savills announced Wednesday that it is elevating Julia Spivack, who has been associate general counsel at the real estate advisory firm for three years, to executive vice president and general counsel. In an i... (more story)
A New York federal judge won't allow a group of companies to take over two multimillion-dollar Napa Valley, California, properties in their bid to enforce a more than $300 million arbitral award in their disp... (more story)
Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan LLP has welcomed land use duo Robin Tatum as partner and Catherine Hill as counsel, expanding the firm's land use practice in its office in Raleigh, North Caro... (more story)
Blackstone Energy Transition Partners announced Thursday that it will invest $1.2 billion to build a 600-megawatt power generation plant in Harrison County, West Virginia, amid a spate of investment into the e... (more story)
Investment firm Geosam Capital and investment manager Group RMC will redevelop a 44-acre Carmel, Indiana, office building into a mixed-use property that will include a hotel, as well as residential, office and retail areas.
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A Seventh Circuit judge on Friday pressed counsel for a building owner, which opposes a Chicago law requiring owners of foreclosed rental properties to pay tenants a relocation fee or offer a new lease, to add... (more story)
North Carolina's governor and the state insurance commissioner are calling on Congress to pass a bill that would cover homes on the brink of collapsing into the ocean under the National Flood Insurance Program... (more story)
Though an ongoing oversupply in the multifamily market is set to drop off in 2026, multifamily real estate investment trust executives reported during third-quarter earnings calls that supply still defined the... (more story)
Low-income Georgians and rural Georgians face several barriers to accessing legal services, including living in a legal desert, according to a Georgia Supreme Court committee’s report. The panel's proposal all... (more story)
H&R Real Estate Investment Trust announced that it is negotiating the sale of $2.6 billion in assets, guided by Blake Cassels and Fasken Martineau, after a special committee rejected wholesale acquisition offers.
The North Carolina Business Court plowed into the fourth quarter with two big decisions in insurance disputes that involved $50 million in COVID-19-related losses at a chain of outlet malls, and an industrial ... (more story)
A Washington property management company did not merit an exclusion from state gross income for payments to onsite employees, a state appeals court panel ruled, upholding a trial court decision and denying a n... (more story)