Tenant Tales and Reseller Realities: Inside the FCRA Arena With Eric Ellman — FCRA Focus Podcast
Eviction Essentials and Lease Management
REFRESH Real Estate Leasing Tips for Nonprofits
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Tenant Is Doing the Work
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Landlord Is Doing the Work
Nonprofit Tenants and Lease Agreements: Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
SDNY Chooses “Time Approach” to Calculating Lease Termination Damages Collectible Against a Bankrupt Estate
When Can Oregon Landlords Terminate Residential Tenancy Without Cause?
Practicing on the Front Lines of Landlord-Tenant Regulations and Housing Law
How Commercial Property Owners Can Collect Unpaid Rent from Commercial Tenants
It’s Lit? Insight into the Increase in Cannabis-Related Litigation in California
Landlord and Tenant Lease Risk Reduction for the Cannabis Industry
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 319: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
Law Brief®: Robert Wolf, Alexander Tiktin and Richard Schoenstein Discuss the Continuing Foreclosure/Eviction Moratorium
[Webinar] Cannabis Real Estate Considerations
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 149: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
Troutman Pepper COVID-19 Legal Issues Podcast Series: COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends (Part Two)
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
COVID-19 in the Workplace - PPP Update, COVID Plans from the Biden Transition Team, Higher Education Relief Package Provision, COVID WARN Act Developments
The recently adopted House Bill 25-1090 (or “HB 1090”) addresses “deceptive, unfair and unconscionable” pricing practices in consumer transactions, including with respect to residential leases in Colorado. This alert broadly...more
Voluntary rent reporting — a process by which tenants can ask landlords to report positive rental payment information to nationwide consumer reporting agencies to help such tenants build their credit — is gaining traction...more
Mayoral Candidates Debate as Early Voting Opens - In the final Democratic mayoral debate, Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani debated over experience and ethics. Cuomo, Mamdani, Brad Lander, Adrienne Adams, Zellnor Myrie, Scott...more
On May 28, Gov. Greg Abbott signed House Bill 21 (HB 21), which becomes effective immediately. A brief summary of HB 21 can be found below. This summary reflects our current interpretation of HB 21. A more detailed analysis...more
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul recently signed into law the Affordable Housing Retention Act (AHRA), which for the next four years enables condo conversions of specific buildings in New York City with a presale requirement for...more
Senate Bill 1103, which took effect on January 1, 2025, amends sections 827, 1632, 1946.1, and 1950.9 of the California Civil Code. This legislation grants new lease protections to “qualified commercial tenants.”...more
The LA City Council passed an amendment to the Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance (JCO), which went into effect January 27, 2025. It applies to most landlords who own and lease residential property within the city, if they are...more
A new California Senate bill (SB 1103 or the Bill) provides commercial tenant protections by amending several sections of the California Civil Code relating to commercial tenancy. These statutory protections will apply...more
California law has long treated commercial and residential tenancies differently. Consumer protection-focused regulations enacted to protect residential tenants were legally considered inapplicable to business tenants which...more
New York state has enacted changes in the housing laws that will have a significant impact on the development and operation of multifamily housing in New York City and the state, and will also ameliorate the effects of...more
It seems like year-after-year, attempts are made to reform or repeal California’s rent control regulations, namely the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act (Civ. Code §§ 1954.50 et seq.) (Costa-Hawkins Act). 2024 has proven to be...more
On October 26, 2023, Bill 35, the Short-Term Rental Accommodations Act received royal assent. Bill 35 was introduced as part of the NDP’s Homes for People Action Plan to combat the housing crisis and intends to regulate...more
New York’s rent stabilization laws, amended in 2019, are arguably the most stringent in the country. Challenges to New York’s rent regulations are not new, and come from both sides of the aisle, tenants and landlords alike....more
New rent control legislation in Montgomery County (Rent Stabilization Bill (15-23)), signed into law by the County Executive on July 24, 2023 after a marathon legislative session, caps annual increases of base rent for...more
Das neue Jahr 2023 bringt einige wichtige Gesetzesänderungen für die Immobilienbranche mit sich, die Ihre Aufmerksamkeit verlangen. In unserem Real Estate Update werfen wir einen Blick auf ausgewählte Gesetzesänderungen, die...more
This blog summarises the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022, which is the first concrete step in the government's wider residential leasehold reforms. What? The Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act 2022...more
On 24 March 2022, the Commercial Rent (Coronavirus) Act 2022 (the “Act”), took effect. This legislation further continues the range of coronavirus measures passed by the government, which aim to provide an as fair as possible...more
On December 17, 2021, Bill C-2, federal legislation that creates two new rent support programs, became law. As their names suggest, the Tourism and Hospitality Recovery Program (THRP) and the Hardest-Hit Business Recovery...more
On September 2, 2021, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law a new moratorium on evictions and foreclosures for residential tenants and small businesses. Recently, in the case Chrysafis v. Marks, the U.S. Supreme...more
Eviction moratoria are increasingly challenged in the courts. On August 12th, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order partially enjoining enforcement of New York’s COVID-19 Emergency Eviction and Foreclosure Prevention Act of...more
On May 5, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that extends the moratorium on evictions and foreclosures for residential tenants and small businesses to August 31, 2021. The previous moratorium expired May 1,...more
On August 31, 2020 California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the “COVID-19 Tenant Relief Act of 2020” and the “COVID-19 Small Landlord and Homeowner Relief Act of 2020” (herein, together, the “Act”), which became effective...more
As expected, California’s legislature passed AB 1482 this week, which imposes statewide rent control, restricting the ability of landlords to terminate certain tenancies without just cause, and further restricting the ability...more
The 2019 Iowa legislative session came to a close on April 27, 2019, resulting in a handful of new laws directly affecting Iowa residential landlords. Below is a summary of those new laws, along with commentary on a few...more