Adaptive Reuse: From Desks to Doorways
REFRESH Real Estate Leasing Tips for Nonprofits
The use of a commercial lease to rip off minority owners in a closely held business
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Landlord Is Doing the Work
Healthcare Practice Lease Negotiations: Avoid Missing Out on Potential Opportunities
Business Better Podcast Episode: Distressed Office Buildings: A Look at Workout and Enforcement
Nonprofit Tenants and Lease Agreements: Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
Can Office to Residential Conversions Help Revitalize Downtown? (Audio)
An Overview of P3s, CIDs and Smart Cities With Malaika Rivers - TAG Infrastructure Talks Podcast
Creative Reuse: The Opportunities and Challenges of Converting Office Space to Residential
How Commercial Property Owners Can Collect Unpaid Rent from Commercial Tenants
Landlord and Tenant Lease Risk Reduction for the Cannabis Industry
Build Out Or Buy? Financing Real Estate Transactions in Healthcare Practices
Goran Musinovic on Healthcare Real Estate Compliance
Troutman Pepper COVID-19 Legal Issues Podcast Series: COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends (Part Two)
The Risk of Personal Injury Claims from COVID-19 and What to Do About It
Law Brief®: David Pfeffer and Richard Schoenstein Discuss the Future of Offices
Commercial/Retail Therapy: Assessing the Pandemic’s Impact on Real Estate
Law Brief®: Debra Bodian Bernstein and Richard Schoenstein Discuss Commercial Lease Defaults During COVID-19
South Carolina Abandoned Building Incentives at Risk of Going Away
As of July 10, 2025, the Mansion Tax and Controlling Interest Transfer Tax (“CITT”) now requires sellers of certain classes of real property (and controlling interest involving certain classes of real property) transferred...more
New Jersey has increased its so-called "mansion tax" and shifted the party who must pay the fee from the buyer to the seller. The tax has a substantial impact on owners of New Jersey real estate, but despite its expansive...more
The third Tuesday in May marks the end of the Suffolk County, Nassau County and New York City annual grievance filing season and the beginning of administrative hearings and deliberations that could yield significant...more
Critical tax appeal deadlines are quickly approaching, and commercial property owners need to be prepared to file tax appeals for 2025 or defend against increase cases to get much needed property tax relief....more
Two of the Connecticut General Assembly's most influential committees are holding public hearings this week on the following property tax bills of note...more
Annual Survey of Income and Expenses – ASIE-2024 As of February 1st, 2025, pursuant to the Nassau County Administrative Code, Section 6-30, the Nassau County Department of Assessment (“the Assessor”) is requiring the...more
Every January, the City of New York releases its annual tentative tax roll based upon Department of Finance (“DOF”) valuations for each property in the five boroughs. Unless successfully challenged, these valuations are the...more
Continued pressures created by elevated levels of mortgage interest rates, vacancies, as well as stricter lending policies, point to higher capitalization rates, lower property values and tax appeal opportunities in 2025....more
Since the publication of our blog, Tenants Beware: The Risks of Landlord Tax Liabilities, draft legislation released by the Department of Finance on August 12, 2024, has proposed a change to the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the...more
San Francisco’s Commercial Vacancy Tax Ordinance, meant to address vacant storefronts in neighborhood commercial districts, finally became effective on January 1, 2022. Although a supermajority of voters approved the tax on...more
Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit den Besonderheiten, auf die ein Eigentümer einer gewerblich genutzten Immobilie bei dem Betrieb einer Photovoltaikanlage achten muss, damit das Investment nicht nur ökologisch, sondern auch...more
Mit Entscheidung vom 11.05.2021 hat das FG Münster (Az. 9 K 2274/19 G) entschieden, dass eine GmbH die erweiterte gewerbesteuerliche Kürzung nicht in Anspruch nehmen kann, wenn sie Wohnungen an Senioren vermietet und die...more
On April 19, 2021, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill 50 (SB 50), which amends portions of Chapter 212, Florida Statutes. SB 50 is slated to significantly reduce Florida’s commercial leasing sales tax...more
A recent Florida Supreme Court decision found that the Hillsborough County 1% transportation sales surtax is unconstitutional. As a result, the decision reduced the sales tax rate on commercial lease payments in Hillsborough...more
A tax on failure - The two taxes in England on the occupation of property are non-domestic rating (business rates) and, for domestic rating, council tax. Pre COVID, business rates yielded £30bn and council tax £36bn...more
I apologize in advance for focusing my blog these past several weeks on the new Oregon Corporate Activity Tax (“CAT”), but my mind keeps finding new facets to this tax regime that I suspect most tax practitioners and even the...more
Owners of vacant commercial properties would do well to consider the impact of the ruling in Ludgate House Limited (LHL) v. Ricketts (VO) and London Borough of Southwark (2018), which was decided by the Valuation Tribunal for...more
South Carolina has some of the highest business property taxes in the Southeast. The state generally taxes land, buildings, machinery and equipment, and furniture and fixtures, but does not tax inventory, pollution control...more
While overall there is little activity in the General Assembly, the House Revenue Committee is meeting today for a hearing on an interesting piece of property tax legislation. The hearing is on HB4363, which would create the...more