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Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC

Ground Leases: A Commercial Real Estate Financing Alternative

In recent years, ground leases have gained popularity as an alternative for developers, offering more flexibility and leaner launch costs than traditional fee ownership of vacant land, pad sites, storefronts, or other...more

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Common Area Maintenance and Operating Expenses in Commercial Leases: What Should and Should Not Be Included?

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In commercial leases, "operating expenses" (often referred to as OPEX, CAM or Common Area Maintenance) generally cover the costs associated with the daily operation, maintenance, and repair of the property. In addition to...more

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What is a Rent-Ready Credit in Multifamily Real Estate?

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A rent-ready credit is a legal provision commonly included in a multifamily real estate purchase agreement that allows a buyer to recover turnover costs at closing. The credit is used to cover the costs needed to make vacant...more

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Avoiding Pitfalls Around New Calif. Commercial Lease Law

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Litigation attorney Anne Beehler and real estate attorney Andrew Starrels co-authored a Law360 article examining the Commercial Tenant Protection Act (S.B. 1103) in California that grants new rights to qualified commercial...more

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Mitigating Losses When Disaster Strikes: How Casualty Provisions Help Protect Tenants and Landlords

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It has now been just over a month since multiple wildfires erupted throughout the Greater Los Angeles area, bringing widespread devastation to the highly populated area in an event that could end up being the costliest...more

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End Game: How a Sublease Can Survive Beyond its Head Lease

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In the world of commercial leasing, the relationship between landlords and tenants and, by extension, subtenants, is at the heart of the leasing arrangement. But what happens when arrangements change and relationships shift?...more

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DOGE Issues Directive Regarding GSA Leases

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Introduction - The U.S. federal government, through the United States General Services Administration (GSA), is the largest tenant in the country, currently leasing approximately 150 million square feet of office space and...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Contracts Clause Rears Its Powerful Head for a Landlord

In a recent case, 513 West 26th Realty LLC v. George Billis Galleries Inc., a New York Supreme Court addressed whether the COVID-era personal guaranty relief statute (the Guaranty Law) violated the Contracts Clause of the...more

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Surrender Condition: Your Lease May Lack a Key Automatic Default Provision

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For commercial landlords, ensuring that tenants return the leased premises in the agreed-upon condition is crucial to protecting their property and income. One effective way to enforce this is by making a tenant's failure to...more

K&L Gates LLP

Who Knew? Some Leases Will Automatically Be ‘Destroyed' Simply Because the Land Being Leased Is Sold. If Potential Lease...

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We continue to be asked to explain how it is even possible that some leases can be ‘destroyed’ simply because the land being leased is sold. So, it is timely we revisit and explain this lease ‘destruction’ risk and how you...more

Miller Starr Regalia

A Contract Drafting Conundrum: Can A Real Property License Agreement Disclaim A Landlord-Tenant Relationship While Retaining The...

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A landowner desiring to enter into a license agreement for the use of real property must take care to ensure that the license agreement does not contain terms that inadvertently waive the landowner’s right to recover the...more

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New Jersey’s New Flood Risk Information Law Goes Into Effect: Penalties for Nondisclosures In Sales and Leases (both Commercial...

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Beginning on March 20, 2024, the new NJ law requires sellers of real property and landlords to make disclosures regarding known and potential flood risks in purchase and sale agreements and new leases and renewals. ...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Idaho’s Supreme Court Raises New Questions About the Essential Elements of a Lease

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Idaho’s Supreme Court recently issued a new opinion discussing the requirements to form a valid lease agreement. Unfortunately, the case raises as many questions as it answers....more

Allen Matkins

Tactics to Avoid Unanticipated Post-Closing Leasing Costs

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Potential buyers and lenders evaluate existing leases of stabilized properties and anticipated lease income of value-add projects in determining which assets to acquire or finance. Rental income, whether existing or...more

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Let’s Get Innovative! - Using short term deals to solve long term problems.

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There continues to be a lot of discussion throughout the commercial real estate industry about competition from online retailers and the holes created by failing and downsizing businesses that have traditionally focused on...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Gesetzentwurf zur Neuregelung des Schriftformerfordernisses im Mietrecht beschlossen

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Die Möglichkeit zur vorzeitigen Kündigung von langfristigen Mietverträgen bei Verstößen gegen die gesetzliche Schriftform schafft seit vielen Jahren erhebliche Rechtsunsicherheiten und Unfrieden für Immobilieninvestoren,...more

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Commercial Tenants Can Assign Right to Just Compensation

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In an eminent domain proceeding, tenants of property subject to condemnation have constitutional rights to just compensation. However, those rights can be assigned to the landlord through a lease agreement. A recent...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

Renting or Leasing out an Apartment? Here’s What You Should Know

Many tenants move in August, so now is the perfect opportunity to refresh your memory on the rights and obligations of the parties involved (both the lessor and the lessee).   ...more

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The evolution of Property Management Agreements in the Build to Rent sector

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Property Management Agreements (“PMAs”) have been around for years and typically follow the same format. However, the growth of the Build to Rent (“BTR”) sector has caused a re-think of the “usual” terms to ensure it reflects...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

New Law Expands Protections for Manufactured Homeowners and Tenants in New York

Effective July 14, 2019, the State of New York greatly expanded tenant protections with a large package of bills covering topics ranging from rent control to eviction restrictions to rent-to-own contracts for manufactured...more

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When Do Defects Prevent Practical Completion?

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Practical completion represents the physical completion of works on construction projects. Despite its importance, it is not a legal term of art, and whether or not practical completion has been achieved requires...more

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We Want Our Neighborhood Back: A North Carolina Homeowners Association's Guide to the Use and Enforcement of Rental Restrictions

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Lending you a cup of sugar, offering to watch the kids, or grilling out on a summer afternoon— whatever the activity, our neighbors are a key part of what makes our communities familiar and unique. Neighbors help make a...more

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