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.
Lessons From Justices' Split On Major Questions Doctrine
The justices' varied opinions in Learning Resources v. Trump, which held the International Emergency Economy Powers Act did not confer the power to impose tariffs, offer a meaningful window into the U.S. Supreme Court's perspective on the major questions doctrine that will likely shape lower courts' approach to executive action challenges, say attorneys at Venable.
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.
Expert Analysis
The Fourth Circuit's recent decision in Oliver v. Navy Federal Credit Union helpfully clarified how class action d... (more story)
With new data predicting liquidity will continue drying up in 2026, developers seeking relief via joint venture re... (more story)
A recent suit asserting that San Francisco should further study the environmental impact before permitting taller ... (more story)
Commercial More
Real estate investment adviser Sagard Real Estate and global investment group La Caisse have started a $360 million joint venture partnership that focuses on U.S. industrial outdoor storage properties, the com... (more story)
A developer behind the planned redevelopment of Philadelphia's historic Bourse building has sued its joint venture partner and several affiliated entities in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of unlaw... (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)
Two Florida real estate executives and their brother have been convicted on sexual assault, rape and sex trafficking charges in a jury trial held in New York federal court, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced Tuesday that it added two new partners to its national real estate platform from Perkins Coie LLP.
Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC on Tuesday named a Princeton, New Jersey-based partner specializing in healthcare and secured lending to co-lead the real estate practice group.
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)
Residential More
A trio of developers announced Tuesday that they secured a $125.5 million Freddie Mac refinancing for the partners' new multifamily development in New York City's Gowanus neighborhood, with two more adjacent p... (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 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)
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)
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)
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)