Commercial
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August 04, 2025
Cold Storage Co. Duped Investors Before 2024 IPO, Suit Says
A pension fund has sued聽Lineage Inc., a cold-storage real estate investment trust, and several of its executives in Michigan federal court over the company's initial public offering, the largest of 2024, alleging the REIT and its top brass misled investors about softening demand and unsustainable pricing.
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August 04, 2025
Real Estate Lawyers On The Move
Holland & Hart, Davis Hartman Wright and Hahn Loeser are among the law firms that have made recent real estate or construction hires.
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August 04, 2025
Arnold & Porter Expands On West Coast With K&L Gates Team
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP is continuing to grow on the West Coast, announcing Monday that it has added seven lawyers from K&L Gates LLP to its newly launched Seattle office and one to its Los Angeles location.
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August 04, 2025
Walker & Dunlop Lines Up $105M Refi For Nashville High-Rise
Walker & Dunlop Inc. lined up $105 million in refinancing provided by Nuveen for a 356-unit, mixed-use high-rise in Nashville, Tennessee, the commercial real estate finance and advisory services firm announced Monday.
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August 04, 2025
Texas Bill Seeks Lower Voter-Approval Property Tax Rate
Texas would reduce its voter-approval property tax rate, or the rate that a local government unit may adopt without voter approval, for large taxing units under a bill introduced in the state Senate.
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August 04, 2025
Gibson Dunn Guides $320M Loan For NYC Office Conversion
An affiliate of Bushburg received a $320 million construction loan for an office-to-residential conversion in New York City's Financial District, in a deal guided by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, per county property records.
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August 04, 2025
NYC Real Estate Week In Review
Greenberg Traurig and Cole Schotz are among the law firms that landed work on the largest New York City deeds that hit public records last week, with multiple entity transfers by a New Jersey management company topping the list.
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August 01, 2025
Land Claimant Urges No New Trial In $30M Cuba Resort Case
The claimed owners of the Cuban barrier island Cayo Coco urged a Florida federal judge Thursday to deny a new trial to Expedia Group, Orbitz and Hotels.com after a jury awarded $29.85 million on findings that the booking sites聽engaged in prohibited trafficking by taking reservations for resorts on land seized by Fidel Castro's government.
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August 01, 2025
Del. Bankruptcy Judge Will Retain Ga. Dorm Operator's Ch. 11
A Delaware bankruptcy judge refused to move the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of dorm operator Corvias Campus Living-USG LLC to Georgia, entering an order Friday denying a bid by the University System of Georgia's board of regents to relocate the proceedings.
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August 01, 2025
7th Circ. Tosses Rehab's Zoning Row With Ind. Town
The Seventh Circuit affirmed an Indiana town's win on Friday in an Americans with Disabilities Act and Rehabilitation Act suit lodged by companies that wanted to convert a local nursing home into a rehab facility.
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August 01, 2025
Long Island Castle Owner Files Ch. 11 To Stall Foreclosure
The owner of a century-old castle on Long Island's Gold Coast filed for Chapter 11 protection late Thursday in New York bankruptcy court, saying it wants to stop a foreclosure sale being forced by its mortgagee lender so the debtor can run a sale process of its own.
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August 01, 2025
Dallas Office Tower Sells For $218M, Setting 2025 High Mark
Cousins Properties has purchased a 292,000-square-foot office property for $218 million, marking the Dallas-Fort Worth area's largest property sale of 2025, broker Newmark Group announced.
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August 01, 2025
Public Storage Sees Bounceback From LA Rent Restrictions
Public Storage executives told shareholders during an earnings call that the self-storage real estate investment trust expects its business in the Los Angeles area to pick back up after the local government lifts rental restrictions imposed after the January wildfires.
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August 01, 2025
Texas Bill Seeks Permanent Limit For Property Tax Increases
Texas would establish a permanent cap on increases in the appraised value of real property other than residence homesteads for property tax purposes if voters approve a proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the cap, as part of legislation filed in the state House of Representatives.
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August 01, 2025
Most Of Property Co.'s Hailstorm Insurance Fight Tossed
A property investment company can raise nearly none of its claims against its insurer for hailstorm damage from 2019 and 2023, a North Carolina federal court ruled, finding that because claims concerning the 2019 storm are time-barred, those corresponding documents can't support much of the 2023 claims.
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August 01, 2025
4 Mass. Rulings You May Have Missed In July
A cannabis company in the process of going out of business cannot rely on a state court receivership to shield it from creditors in other states, and the owners of shuttered Norwood Hospital can't renew an expired permit issued to bankrupt Steward Health.
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August 01, 2025
Ex-Partner Of Seiden & Schein Says Firm Is Scapegoating Him
A former shareholder and director of the dissolved New York City real estate law firm Seiden & Schein PC聽hit back at its $25 million suit accusing him of poaching clients and employees and stealing confidential information, claiming in New York state court that the case is a "calculated" attempt to "smear" him and make him a "scapegoat."
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August 01, 2025
Data Center Companies Go Big On Fundraising, Growth
Digital Realty Trust and Equinix are pursuing lofty fundraising goals and extensive development projects as they look to capitalize more on demand for digital infrastructure for cloud-computing, networking and artificial intelligence technology, executives said in recent earnings calls.
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August 01, 2025
A Dive Into Trump's 'Build, Baby, Build!' Plan For Data Centers
President Donald Trump's plan to snip red tape for data center projects targets environmental laws that have long been known to prompt delays and uncertainties for investors, but some questions remain over how the deregulatory actions will take shape and when.
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July 31, 2025
Top Property Insurance Decisions So Far In 2025
A U.K. decision over coverage for Russian-seized aircraft and a Second Circuit ruling in favor of international insurers seeking to arbitrate hurricane damage claims are among some of the biggest decisions in the property insurance space so far in 2025.
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July 31, 2025
Calif. Resort Developer Gets 2 More Weeks Of Ch. 11 Funding
An insolvent company that developed a resort and other properties in California told a Delaware bankruptcy judge on Thursday that it had cobbled together two more weeks of Chapter 11 financing, avoiding for now a dismissal or conversion of its case to a Chapter 7 liquidation.
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July 31, 2025
CGL Cases To Watch In The Second Half Of 2025
Federal and state courts continue to weigh litigation involving public nuisance, long-tail environmental and sexual abuse claims. Here, 极速赛车 breaks down some of the blockbuster commercial general liability insurance cases to follow in the second half of the year.
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July 31, 2025
Casino Developer Must Stay In Involuntary Ch. 7, Judge Finds
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has refused to throw out or convert the involuntary Chapter 7 proceedings launched against the onetime hopeful developer of a casino in Mississippi, concluding the creditors that forced it into bankruptcy did not act in bad faith.
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July 31, 2025
Gambling REIT VICI Unbothered By Las Vegas Slump
VICI Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust focused on gambling and experiential real estate, touted investments in casino developments and its Canadian casino performance as Las Vegas sees a tourism decline, in its second-quarter earnings call with analysts.
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July 31, 2025
Wyndham Can't Escape Hotel Workers' Labor Trafficking Suit
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc. can't get out of a lawsuit alleging that two hotels, in West Virginia and western Pennsylvania, forced homeless or desperate people into servitude in exchange for shelter, though a federal judge has trimmed several claims against the company and one hotel's owners.
Expert Analysis
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Avoiding Pitfalls Around New Calif. Commercial Lease Law
A California law that became effective this year requires commercial landlords to extend certain protections previously afforded to residential tenancies, and a few key provisions of the law especially warrant reexamination of leasing and operational processes, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Measuring And Mitigating Harm From Discriminatory Taxes
In response to new tariffs and other recent "America First Trade Policy" pronouncements, corporations should assess and take steps to minimize their potential exposure to discriminatory and reciprocal tax measures that are likely to come, say economists at Charles River Associates.
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Addressing Tariff Price Escalation In Construction Contracts
As construction projects across the U.S. face uncertainty surrounding material price increases driven by government-imposed tariffs, owners and developers should draft strong contracts to protect themselves from tariff-related cost overruns and delays, say attorneys at Akerman.
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How The CRE Industry Is Adapting To Tariff Uncertainty
Amid uncertainty about pending tariffs and their potential ripple effects, including higher material costs, supply chain delays and tighter margins, commercial real estate industry players are focusing on strategic planning and risk mitigation, says Daniel Diaz Leyva at Day Pitney.
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Reconciling 2 Smoke Coverage Cases From California
As highlighted by a California Department of Insurance bulletin clarifying the effect of two recent decisions on insurance coverage, the February state appellate ruling denying coverage for property damage from smoke, ash and soot should be viewed as an outlier, say attorneys at Reed Smith.
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Contractor Remedies Amid Overhaul Of Federal Spending
Now that the period for federal agencies to review their spending has ended, companies holding procurement contracts or grants should evaluate whether their agreements align with administration policies and get a plan ready to implement if their contracts or grants are modified or terminated, say attorneys at DLA Piper.
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Contract Disputes Recap: Terminations Galore
Attorneys at Seyfarth examine three recent decisions in which the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals and the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals provide valuable insights into contract terminations, modifications and the jurisdictional requirements for claims.
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Making The Opportunity Zones Program Great At Last
As the opportunity zone program approaches its expiration, the Republican-led government could take specific steps to extend and improve the program, address its structural flaws, encourage broader participation and enable it to live up to its promised outcomes, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Investor Essentials For Buying Federally Owned Property
Investors and developers can take advantage of the Trump administration's plan to sell government-owned real estate by becoming familiar with the process and eligible to bid, and should prepare to move quickly once the U.S. General Services Administration posts the list of properties for sale, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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How 2025 Is Shaping The Future Of Bank Mergers So Far
Whether the long-anticipated great wave of consolidation in the U.S. banking industry will finally arrive in 2025 remains to be seen, but the conditions for bank mergers are more favorable now than they have been in years, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Why NY May Want To Reconsider Its LLC Transparency Law
Against the backdrop of the myriad challenges to the federal Corporate Transparency Act, it may be prudent for New York to reconsider its adoption of the LLC Transparency Act, since it's unclear whether the Empire State's "baby-CTA" statute is still necessary or was passed prematurely, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Dewberry Ruling Is A Wakeup Call For Trademark Owners
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dewberry v. Dewberry hones in on the question of how a defendant's affiliates' profits should be treated under the Lanham Act, and should remind trademark litigants and practitioners that issues involving monetary relief should be treated seriously, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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How GSA Lease Clauses May Affect DOGE Terminations
The Department of Government Efficiency has begun to cut the U.S. General Services Administration's enormous real estate portfolio, but some standard lease clauses include limits helpful to landlords that may slow progress toward the administration's cost-cutting goals, say attorneys at Pillsbury.