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Mandelbaum Barrett PC

ADA Lawsuits for Real Estate Investors: Understanding Nuisance Claims & How to Protect Your Assets

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was enacted to ensure equal access and opportunity for individuals with disabilities. While the law plays a critical role in advancing accessibility, in recent years it has also...more

Allen Matkins

Retail’s Flight to Quality

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With investors expressing optimism, the retail sector is steady or improving across California. Residential-serving retail is a key bright spot, with specialty stores and restaurants potentially entering a new growth cycle,...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Crossing Jurisdictions - Dealing With Tenant Insolvency in the European and US Commercial Real Estate Markets

The global commercial real estate market paints a varied picture, with certain jurisdictions and sectors recovering quicker than others from the COVID-19 pandemic and continuing geopolitical uncertainty. Higher interest rates...more

Tonkon Torp LLP

Legal Lessons from Portland’s Commercial Real Estate Uncertainty

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In today’s commercial real estate market, the only certainty is uncertainty. This is not a call for panic, but rather a call for balance. Now is not the time for bet-the-firm risks, nor is it a time for total retreat to the...more

Jones Day

Shock and Law: UK Government's Surprise Proposal to Ban Upward-Only Rent Reviews

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For years, upward-only rent reviews have been a cornerstone of the UK commercial property market, offering landlords and investors a reassuring degree of income security and predictability....more

Frost Brown Todd

Sale-Leaseback Due Diligence Considerations

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This is the fourth installment in our series on sale-leaseback transactions, a real estate financing mechanism growing in popularity. For a recap, check out part one on sale-leaseback fundamentals, part two on reverse...more

Allen Matkins

What is the outlook for the office sector right now?

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“The 'flight to quality' continues. Office building landlords with space available in upscale buildings (with state-of-the-art amenities) located in hot submarkets are very active right now. Most companies have realized...more

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

Will Rescheduling Cannabis Open the Industry to Increased Financing, Real Estate and Banking Opportunities?

On May 16, 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) issued its proposed rules to transfer cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to Schedule III of the CSA. The DOJ’s proposal follows the U.S....more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Conflicting Court Rulings on Subchapter V Eligibility Leave Small Businesses in Limbo

Two recent bankruptcy court decisions reflect a split of authority on subchapter V eligibility. In re Macedon Consulting Inc. finds that all future amounts due under an unexpired lease qualify as “noncontingent and...more

Hogan Lovells

UK parking nightmare – what is happening with NCP’s restructuring plan?

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National Car Parks' proposed restructuring plan aimed to write-off arrears, cut rents and close unwanted sites but why did the plan stall? On 30 April 2021, National Car Parks launched its proposed restructuring plan,...more

Goodwin

Navigating the New Normal: Adaptive Reuse of Space

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When you think of adaptive reuse, you likely associate it with turning a rustic barn, an old-time firehouse or former chapel into a cottage, modern loft or chic house. More broadly, however, adaptive reuse is any redesign,...more

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Residential property reform by UK government: Goodbye to ground rents

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In the first part of a long-heralded suite of reforms to leasehold property law in England & Wales, the UK government has introduced a draft Bill which is intended to consign to history ground rents under leases of flats and...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

SEC Files First Charges for Inadequate Public Company COVID-19 Disclosures

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In a prelude of things to come for public companies, on December 4 the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued restaurant operator The Cheesecake Factory Incorporated for making misleading disclosures regarding the...more

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Building Flexible (And Sustainable) Laboratory Spaces For The Future

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Flexibility provides the greatest value in laboratory space design for both owners and users of life sciences real estate. Science and technology are evolving at such a rapid pace that it is difficult to predict future needs....more

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The Impact of Technology in the Growth of the Life Sciences Industry

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Perhaps nowhere do technology and real estate intersect more deeply than in the life sciences industry, where sophisticated technologies are integral to tenants’ operations. The life sciences industry, which was experiencing...more

Jones Day

Berlin Government Proposes Rent Cap for Residential Space

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Implementation of the rent cap could have a significant negative impact on returns for investors in Berlin residential investments—will it be challenged? Over the past decade, Berlin has experienced a significant rent...more

Hogan Lovells

Game, set and match for leasehold housing and ground rents: Government responds to its consultation on leasehold reform

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Last week saw a volley of government announcements for the private rented sector and investors in leasehold residential property.  At the Chartered Institute of Housing Conference on 27 June, Prime Minister Theresa May and...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

What Investors Should Know About the Berlin Rent Cap

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The Berlin government’s envisaged five-year rent cap on residential properties has caused significant uncertainty among investors in housing portfolios. On 18 June 2019, the Berlin Senate published a position paper...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Real Estate Aspects of Tax Reform

On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed into law the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the most extensive overhaul of the United States tax regime in over thirty years. The new tax laws will have a significant impact upon...more

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German Court Voids Defect-Curing Clauses in Written Form Lease Agreements

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The Situation: A decision by the German Federal Court of Justice has made null and void written form defect-curing clauses in lease agreements. The Result: It is likely that more tenants and landlords will attempt to...more

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