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April 27, 2026
Building affordable housing presents plenty of challenges in the best of times, with developers and builders striving to keep prices down, sway resistant communities, and navigate webs of government incentive programs and regulations. It is that much more difficult under the present circumstances where construction costs — typically the largest expense for these projects — seem to be on a rollercoaster with twists and turns and no break in the intensity.
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April 27, 2026
Bankrupt home lending broker Impac Mortgage Holdings Inc. received emergency approval on Monday to restrict trading of its stock in order to protect as much as $1.4 billion in tax attributes, which are its most valuable assets, as it pursues a 60-day reorganization track.
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April 27, 2026
Sales of two mixed-use properties along the Hudson River in New Jersey aren't subject to a state fee on properties sold for more than $1 million because the properties should be classified as residential instead of commercial based on their usage, the state Tax Court ruled Monday.
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April 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development proposed a rule that aims to get rid of "references to 'gender' and 'gender identity' from HUD regulations, or remove and replace it with 'sex,'" according to a proposed rule in the Federal Register.
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April 27, 2026
Holland & Knight and Dentons are among the U.S. law firms with the most attorneys working on affordable housing, an analysis by Law360 Real Estate Authority found.
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April 27, 2026
Tarter Krinsky and Kriss & Feuerstein scored work on the two largest New York real estate deals that hit public records last week, with a large Manhattan Fifth Avenue trade leading the way.
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April 27, 2026
In the span of two days in mid-March, the U.S. Senate passed an affordable housing bill and President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders aimed at making housing more affordable and spurring more construction, as lawyers keep close tabs on how those developments may affect prices, rates and construction starts.
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April 27, 2026
Virginia will allow local governments to provide partial property tax exemptions for eligible building conversions to provide affordable housing under a bill signed by the governor.
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April 27, 2026
For developer Cedar Street Partners, it took years of litigation and winning enforcement of an untested provision in state law to get the Southern California city of La Cañada Flintridge to advance the firm's plans for a mixed-use affordable housing project.
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April 27, 2026
The need for affordable housing has spread far and wide across the country, including in rural counties and mid-size towns, but community resistance and inexperience within local governments can create hurdles to development, attorneys say.
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April 27, 2026
Becoming a victim of its own success, Florida has seen recent rapid growth, especially at the wealthier end of the spectrum, spawning affordability challenges for many residents. The dichotomy has been particularly evident in housing, but this is also an area where the state is making strides, in the eyes of industry experts.
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April 27, 2026
Alternative housing models — including accessory dwelling units, single-room occupancy dwellings and manufactured housing — could take a bite out of the housing affordability crisis. But first, states must overcome barriers erected by local governments.
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April 27, 2026
Land use, policy and deal-side attorneys are mulling recent efforts by the White House and Congress to increase the country's housing supply. Here, Law360 Real Estate Authority shares what experts think of the nuances, and where federal efforts may stimulate — or frustrate — production.
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April 27, 2026
As President Donald Trump and Congress turn increased attention to tackling the nation's housing affordability crisis, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, whose agency serves as a key conduit for federal efforts, touted efforts to cut costly regulations during a recent appearance in Florida.
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April 27, 2026
In early 2025, Primestor Development was roughly half a decade into the planning process for a $300 million mixed-use project in Southern California — including a large modular residential component with affordable and market-rate housing — when tariffs scuttled arrangements with a key supplier. The scramble that ensued made for some challenging and novel lawyering, discussed here with Law360 Real Estate Authority.
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April 24, 2026
Embattled Florida real estate company MV Realty agreed to pay $4.5 million to end a lawsuit from the North Carolina attorney general accusing it of using shady business practices to lock homeowners into decades-long listing agreements with predatory rates, according to a consent judgment.
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April 24, 2026
New York and its Department of Motor Vehicles urged the Second Circuit on Friday to order the U.S. Department of Transportation to restore a $73.5 million highway funding package that the federal government canceled because the state provided commercial driver's licenses to immigrants.
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April 24, 2026
A 21-year-old founder of an artificial intelligence startup posed as a licensed real estate appraiser to gain access to a residential appraisal software company's data collection tool and share it with his own employees, who duplicated aspects of the product, the software company has alleged in a California federal court.
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April 24, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel declined Friday to resurrect a Washington developer's lawsuit accusing Whatcom County officials of violating its constitutional rights by scaling back a housing development plan, concluding that the firm hasn't shown a protected stake in the property that it offloaded during Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings.
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April 24, 2026
Canandaigua National Corp. has urged the Second Circuit to overturn a Federal Reserve Board decision that denied the community bank's request to introduce a cash guarantee program for homebuyers, arguing the agency wrongly treated the plan as off-limits under what the company called an outdated legal view that banks should not own real estate.
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April 24, 2026
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin on Friday announced construction code reforms that she said could create up to 35,000 new housing units on small lots across the city, along with a new panel of experts to advise the council on housing affordability.
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April 24, 2026
Compass Inc. urged a Washington federal court to toss a multiple listing service's "baseless" and "conclusory" counterclaims against the real estate brokerage's antitrust suit, which alleges that the MLS' property listing rules are anticompetitive.
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April 24, 2026
New York developer Time Equities Inc. has closed on a $160 million construction loan from M&T Bank to build the first phase of a mixed-use housing project in downtown Boynton Beach, Florida, with advice from Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.
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April 24, 2026
PMG is currently selling condominiums that come with deeded office suites for its 40-story, 467-unit Miami luxury mixed-use tower project in the city's Brickell neighborhood, the developer announced.
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April 23, 2026
A New York City-backed program to offer property and liability insurance to affordable housing operators is a promising approach to reducing a key operating cost for landlords that don't have the flexibility of market-rate operators to increase rents, affordable housing experts said, but details of the plan remain scant.