Local Ordinance, Property Owners, Real Estate Market

MHH Condo/Co-op Digest, (July 2025)

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP on 7/11/2025

This newsletter explores the emerging legal topics and issues affecting the condominium and cooperative services industry. Thought-leading attorneys from Moritt Hock & Hamroff’s Condominium and Cooperative Services Practice...more

Short-Term Rental Registry Launches in British Columbia

Bennett Jones LLP on 2/4/2025

On January 20, 2025, the Government made regulations under the Act (the regulations) and launched the short-term rental registry (the Registry)....more

Walls and Fences Are Not The Same

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 12/16/2019

This blog post is about walls and fences (but probably not the ones you may be thinking about). The walls of concern to this blog post are located in the Town of Geneva, in a part of the state known as the Finger Lakes...more

Supreme Court, Suffolk County Upholds ZBA Determination Authorizing a Change In Nonconforming Use

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 12/9/2019

The Supreme Court, Suffolk County recently upheld a determination of the Southampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals (“ZBA”) perhaps ending a lengthy and controversial review of the development of a day camp on residentially...more

Nonconforming Uses – Don’t Abandon Them

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 10/21/2019

Legal pre-existing nonconforming uses (aka grandfathered uses) have a tenuous existence in New York. Although protected by vested property rights in the Constitution, many local zoning ordinances seek to eliminate these...more

Massachusetts Appeals Court Holds that Restrictive Covenants Created as Part of a Common Scheme May Be Extended Beyond Thirty...

Mintz on 12/12/2017

On December 5, 2017, the Massachusetts Appeals Court issued an important decision in Berger v. 2 Wyndcliff, LLC, No. 16-P-336 (Mass. App. Ct. Dec. 5, 2017), clarifying the extent to which land owners in a common-scheme...more