Property Owners, Zoning Laws, Real Estate Market

Texas Enacts Critical Real Estate Reforms—Senate Bills 15, 17, 840

Foley & Lardner LLP on 7/29/2025

Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top Prior to his June 22, 2025, deadline, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law hundreds of bills passed by the Texas Legislature. Three of these, Senate Bills 15, 17,...more

Zoning Change Allows Conversion of Ground Floor Nonresidential Uses to Residential Uses

Holland & Knight LLP on 4/2/2025

As discussed in previous Holland & Knight alerts on Dec. 10 and Dec. 18, 2024, New York City recently made comprehensive changes to its Zoning Resolution, known collectively as City of Yes for Zoning for Housing Opportunity...more

Affordable Homes Act Significantly Increases Homestead Exemption

Conn Kavanaugh on 11/1/2024

On August 6, 2024, Governor Maura Healy signed the Affordable Homes Act (the Act”), legislation whose purpose is to address rising housing costs within the Commonwealth by implementing public investment, changes to zoning...more

Challenging Market Conditions Require Commercial Real Estate Owners to Find Creative Solutions

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 10/10/2023

October 10, 2023Publications Tighter credit, lower asset valuations and changes in consumer demand will force property owners to reimagine how real estate assets are currently used and to deploy new tools to ensure real...more

Buying and Selling Real Estate in Latvia (Updated)

International Lawyers Network on 1/18/2022

KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER LATVIAN LAW - I. STANDARD FORMS OF AGREEMENT - A. Offer to Purchase sets forth Buyer’s offer of price and date for closing. Seller may accept or reject. B. The purchase...more

Second Department Reminds: a Use Cannot Be Legally Nonconforming If It Was Never Legal to Begin With

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 2/19/2020

When determining whether a use is legally nonconforming for zoning purposes, the key consideration is whether the use was legal prior to the zoning restriction prohibiting it. A use cannot become legally nonconforming if it...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

Unique Procedural Rule Requires Transfer of Article 78 Proceeding to Appellate Division

Farrell Fritz, P.C. on 11/25/2019

A recent Second Department decision, Matter of Reddock v New York State Dept. of Envtl. Conservation, highlights a unique procedural quirk involving Article 78 proceedings where the challenge is based upon “substantial...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

Judge, not Jury, Must Consider the Constitutionality of a Dedication Requirement and Whether it Qualifies as a "Project Effect"

Nossaman LLP on 8/30/2016

One issue that can arise in eminent domain actions involving undeveloped (or under developed) property is whether the property being acquired is potentially subject to a dedication requirement. If the property’s overall...more

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