/realestate?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Real Estate Copyright 2025 ¼«ËÙÈü³µ. en-US Fri, 01 Aug 2025 23:24:53 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372398?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372398 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 engaged in prohibited trafficking by taking reservations for resorts on land seized by Fidel Castro's government. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 21:59:50 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372533?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372533 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from ¼«ËÙÈü³µ Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into how law firms are winning the succession game, and the Trump administration's efforts to cut red tape for data center projects. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:48:43 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372241?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372241 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. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 20:41:02 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372523?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372523 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. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:49:49 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372534?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372534 Massachusetts' highest court on Friday concluded that landlords cannot ding a tenant's security deposit for normal wear and tear like scuffs on walls, nor can they force a tenant to pay for professional cleanings during a moveout. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:21:56 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372365?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372365 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. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:50:25 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372228?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372228 An Alaska judge threw out a breach of trust claim against the federal government and a mining company in a challenge to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision to issue a permit for an open gold mine near the Yukon border. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:55:40 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372549?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372549 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. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:40:38 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372314?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372314 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. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:38:54 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372192?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372192 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. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:56:27 +0000 /realestate/articles/2367457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2367457 After the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the practice of nationwide injunctions in Trump v. Casa, Section 1983 civil rights suits can provide a better pathway to hold the government accountable — but this will require reforms to qualified immunity, says Marc Levin at the Council on Criminal Justice. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 16:07:28 +0000 /realestate/articles/2371446?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2371446 Legislation working its way through the Pennsylvania Legislature this year includes bids to expand the state's consumer protection law to make it harder for companies to lock customers into automatically renewing subscriptions and for landlords to use software to collaborate with one another to inflate rents. Here are some bills to watch in the latter half of 2025. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:59:39 +0000 /realestate/articles/2371809?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2371809 The law firms Neubert Pepe & Monteith PC and Cuddy & Feder LLP told a Connecticut state court they should not have to face a lawsuit from a couple who claim they misused the judicial system to delay payouts from a property owner, arguing that the complaint does not sufficiently allege they engaged in vexatious litigation. Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:26:24 +0000 /realestate/articles/2372199?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2372199 A Pittsburgh trade group has asked a Pennsylvania federal court to temporarily bar enforcement of a zoning ordinance mandating that large multifamily developments include affordable units, after the city's planning department demanded that a member comply with the ordinance. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:15:46 +0000 /realestate/articles/2371349?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2371349 A Florida federal judge has allowed the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida to intervene in a lawsuit filed by green groups against the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" constructed in the Everglades after the tribe argued the facility poses a direct threat to its livelihood. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 19:51:24 +0000 /realestate/articles/2371798?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2371798 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. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:02:02 +0000 /realestate/articles/2371778?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2371778 Latham & Watkins LLP expanded its presence in midtown Manhattan by signing a 12-year lease for 12,000 square feet on two whole floors in RXR's building at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, RXR announced Thursday. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:40:50 +0000 /realestate/articles/2371647?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2371647 A homebuyer has accused a Raleigh, North Carolina, brokerage of taking kickbacks to refer borrowers exclusively to mortgage origination company CrossCountry Mortgage under a secret arrangement by executives of the two businesses, according to a complaint filed in federal court. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:28:38 +0000 /realestate/articles/2371769?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2371769 Home sellers are defending $110 million in settlements cut with several real estate brokerages in the sprawling litigation targeting the National Association of Realtors' broker commission rules from objections in a series of Eighth Circuit appeals. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:22:58 +0000 /realestate/articles/2369190?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /realestate/articles/2369190 A recently enacted law reforming the California Environmental Quality Act has been touted by state leaders as a fix for the state's housing crisis — but provisions including a new theoretically optional traffic mitigation fee could offset any potential benefits, says attorney David Smith.