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Housing Industry Update 2025 - Mid-Year Report

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Across the United States, empty office buildings have become a common sight. According to Moody’s Analytics, office vacancies are at their highest since the 1990s. The COVID hangover has left us with an abundance of vacant or...more

Allen Matkins

Inflation and Rising Costs Won’t Slow Multifamily Momentum

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Vacancy rates across the state are showing improvement, particularly in San Francisco, which reflects California’s housing shortage. Demand also remains strong, and supply is growing, suggesting confidence in the sector...more

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Prince George’s County Anti-Gouging Bill and Rent Control Guidance; Montgomery County Term Limits and Troubled Properties...

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With another interest rate cut, the capital markets appear to be more promising for real estate transactions; time will tell how this month’s elections will impact the real estate industry. ...more

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The High Street is Feeling the Love… Or Is It?

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It’s “Love your High Street Week”! So, what better way to start the week than to consider two significant legal reforms announced by the government last week, that are intended to boost and revitalise the High Street...more

Cole Schotz

Navigating the NYS 2024/2025 Executive Budget and Its Impact on NYC Multifamily Housing (Part 2 of 4)

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New York recently adopted the Affordable Neighborhoods for New Yorkers (ANNY) Tax Incentive and the Affordable Housing from Commercial Conversions (AHCC) Tax Incentive programs, as well as a host of other new and modified...more

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Critical State Housing Laws Approved by Governor Newsom

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Governor Newsom recently approved multiple state housing bills passed by the State Assembly and Senate. The following is a summary of a few of the key bills that are expected to benefit multi-family, mixed-income housing...more

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UK government's rental auction plans will bulldoze normal letting processes

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Amid strong industry objection to its proposed rental auctions scheme for vacant high street premises, the government has launched an open consultation to seek views on matters that will form part of the scheme, first...more

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Landlords File Lawsuit Challenging Legality of San Francisco’s Empty Homes Tax

Local landlords and owner-groups filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court last week in response to the recently-passed Proposition M, also known as the Empty Homes Tax Ordinance. We previously covered the new San...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Voters Approve San Francisco’s Empty Homes Tax and Oakland’s Expanded Residential Eviction Protections

Voters in San Francisco and Oakland approved two measures with significant implications for residential property owners: San Francisco’s Proposition M, also known as the Empty Homes Tax, and Oakland’s Measure V, which expands...more

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Empty property rates

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Following recent court decisions, the options available to an owner of empty business premises to avoid a liability for empty property rates have been reduced.  This matters because no rates are payable for the first...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Hotel and Office Conversions — an Update

Since January 2021, multiple proposals were introduced in the New York State legislature to permit underutilized hotel and/or office buildings, many of which have become financially distressed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, to...more

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Empty property rates in England; guarding the guardians?

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The two taxes in England on the occupation of property are non-domestic rating and, for domestic rating, council tax. Pre COVID, business rates yielded £30bn and council tax £36bn annually. Rates are payable on business...more

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City Not Required to Evaluate Impacts of Loss of Rental Units from Already-Vacant Building

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A lead agency was not required to evaluate the housing-related impacts of a proposed hotel in a vacant building that was formerly used for rental housing. Hollywoodians Encouraging Rental Opportunities v. City of Los Angeles,...more

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