News & Analysis as of August 16, 2025

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The term "mortgage" typically refers to a mortgage loan. A mortgage loan is a financing instrument where an individual or business borrows money to purchase property (usually real property) and... more +

New York Legislature Targets Real Estate Lenders To Lower Rents

Jones Day on 7/25/2025

In an effort to protect small businesses from high rents, on June 13, both houses of New York's legislature passed a bill, S1163, that prohibits "rent minimums" in real estate secured loan documents. As of this writing, this...more

Real Estate & Construction News Roundup (7/31/24) – International Homebuying Shrinks Commercial Real Estate Focus on...

Pillsbury - Gravel2Gavel Construction & Real... on 7/31/2024

In our latest roundup, mortgage rates drop to lowest levels since March, hotel construction activity highest since February 2023, Biden administration calls for legislation regarding property owners, and more!...more

Structured Finance Spectrum – Winter 2024

Alston & Bird on 2/22/2024

Welcome to the latest edition of the Spectrum, covering hot-topic issues in the structured finance markets in the U.S. and UK. This edition features the shifting single-family rental landscape, what’s next for EDGAR, and...more

California Legislative Roundup 2020: Financial Services

Holland & Knight LLP on 9/25/2020

Notwithstanding a pandemic-induced winnowing of legislative priorities this year, California has passed a handful of new bills to regulate discrete areas of the financial services industry, including student loan servicing,...more

FHFA Extends Eviction and Foreclosure Moratorium

Akerman LLP on 5/14/2020

On May 14, 2020, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced an extension of its eviction and foreclosure moratorium due to the COVID-19 pandemic until June 30, 2020. This is an extension of FHFA's March 18 directive...more

Financial Services Law: HUD/FHFA announce details of foreclosure and eviction moratorium

Bricker Graydon LLP on 3/23/2020

On March 18, 2020, President Trump announced during a White House briefing that “the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) will be providing immediate relief to renters and homeowners by suspending all...more

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