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.
Senate Dem Bill Adds To Trump's Wall Street Home Buy Ban
Senate Democrats are proposing to end tax breaks for Wall Street's single-family home purchases and ramp up antitrust enforcement, offering a rival plan aimed at housing affordability as President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address Tuesday repeated a call to ban big investors from the market.
Tariff Decision May Offer Fleeting Relief For Real Estate Sector
Attorneys and other industry professionals shared insights with Law360 Real Estate Authority about how the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down certain tariffs and the White House's response may impact real estate and construction.
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Krieger & Prager and Pryor Cashman are among the law firms that assisted with the largest New York City real estate deals that became public last week, with transactions in three separate boroughs comprising t... (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)
Amid rapid advances in artificial intelligence and augmented reality, the newly launched Digital Rights Network platform is aiming to give building owners the infrastructure they need to protect the digital ri... (more story)
FBT Gibbons LLP announced that an experienced Philadelphia-based real estate attorney joined the firm as a partner from McCarter & English LLP as part of its continued growth in East Coast markets.
Alexander's Inc. will sell a vacant 338,000-square-foot Queens, New York, shopping center to healthcare provider Northwell Health Inc. for $235 million, the real estate investment trust announced Monday.
The owner of two Chicago hotels has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with $146.7 million in mortgage debt, saying it's at an impasse with its senior lenders.
Artificial intelligence hyperscaler Nscale on Monday revealed it had reached a $14.6 billion valuation after closing a Series C funding round with $2 billion in tow, supported by Nvidia, Lenovo and others.
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The city of Tampa, Florida, has greenlit a mixed-use, 1,150-unit redevelopment project that will be headed by Property Markets Group, Bank of America and other parties, PMG announced.
Multiple real estate developers and their corporate entities Friday pled guilty over their roles in a $1.6 million scheme that Manhattan prosecutors say defrauded a New York state tax abatement program meant t... (more story)
The U.S. Senate has advanced a bipartisan housing bill that aims to increase housing availability and affordability by, among other things, cutting back on housing regulations to speed up the construction of h... (more story)
A Texas federal judge told an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice on Friday that he has "serious questions regarding the nature" of a proposed $68 million settlement the agency and the state of Texas r... (more story)
Two New Jersey trade groups said Friday that they are challenging land use rules designed to mitigate the effects of climate change that were finalized on Gov. Phil Murphy's last day in office.
Federal prosecutors have accused a Miami real estate developer of leading an $85 million investment fraud scheme and failing to pay both his personal income taxes and payroll taxes for his employees, the U.S. ... (more story)
A New York state appellate court confirmed that a New York Human Rights Law provision outlawing source-of-income discrimination is unconstitutional, allowing landlords to decline to rent to prospective tenants... (more story)