Commercial

  • February 24, 2025

    Mass. City Says Ex-Team Owners Reneged On Stadium Fees

    The city of Brockton, Massachusetts, claims in a lawsuit filed in state court that the former owners of a minor league baseball team owe the economically struggling community more than $68,000 for the use of a city-owned stadium for games and a concert last year.

  • February 24, 2025

    Minn. Tax Court Boosts Parking Lot Value, Citing Own Error

    The Minnesota Tax Court boosted its previous valuation of a Minneapolis parking lot, agreeing with a county assessor that it erred when it allowed a downward adjustment to its previous finding.

  • February 24, 2025

    Yellow Corp. Gets OK To Sell More Terminals For $15.1M

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge has signed off on Yellow Corp.'s $15.1 million sale of trucking terminals and other property to three buyers, as the defunct trucking company looks to add to the more than $2 billion it has already brought in from asset sales in Chapter 11.

  • February 24, 2025

    Justices Turn Away Challenge To Philly Gun Shop Ban

    The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won't take up a Philadelphia gun range's challenge to a city rule banning gun shops in residential neighborhoods, after a Pennsylvania appellate court said in 2024 that the Second Amendment didn't cover zoning rules restricting where firearms could be sold.

  • February 21, 2025

    Appeals Court Says No Contract Dooms Ranch Sale Challenge

    A Texas appeals court found no grounds to revive most of the rejected claims a land brokerage lodged against the owners of a 1,200-acre ranch and their real estate and escrow agents after its attempt to buy the property fell through.

  • February 21, 2025

    Property Plays: GSA, United Center, Coney Island

    Property Plays is a weekly roundup of the latest loans, leases, sales and projects around the country. Send your tips — all confidential — to realestate@law360.com.

  • February 21, 2025

    Md. Senate OKs Tax Break For Service Station Conversions

    Certain retail service stations in Maryland converted to other uses would be eligible for local property tax breaks under legislation approved by the state Senate and sent to the House.

  • February 21, 2025

    VICI Bets On Immersive Real Estate

    VICI Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust mostly known for its iconic Las Vegas casinos, emphasized in a call with analysts its bets on experiential real estate, which aims to create immersive experiences beyond slot machines.

  • February 21, 2025

    Polsinelli Adds Veteran Real Estate Atty To Boston Office

    Polsinelli PC has hired a veteran real estate transactions attorney with more than two decades of experience as a shareholder for the real estate team in its Boston office, which makes her the firm's seventh real estate shareholder hire in the past 12 months.

  • February 21, 2025

    Lewis Brisbois Launches Corporate Landlord Practice

    Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has announced the launch of a new corporate landlord practice, with two partners from Atlanta and Houston serving as co-chairs.

  • February 21, 2025

    Latham Advises Cain On Taking $300M One Beverly Hills Loan

    Latham & Watkins LLP advised Cain International in accepting a $300 million loan from VICI Properties Inc. and Eldridge Industries on its $5.2 billion ultra-luxury urban resort, One Beverly Hills.

  • February 21, 2025

    Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, V&E, Cravath, Dechert

    In this week's Taxation With Representation, Diamondback Energy buys Midland Basin assets from another oil and natural gas company, GTCR closes its second strategic growth fund, Light & Wonder Inc. buys Grover Gaming's assets, and Barings acquires Artemis Real Estate Partners.

  • February 20, 2025

    Tribes Fail To Win Reversal Of Ore. Casino Project Decision

    A D.C. federal judge has denied a bid by three tribes to reverse an Interior Department decision approving a land trust application for another tribe in what is Oregon's first off-reservation casino, ruling that they've failed to show how the project would harm them.

  • February 20, 2025

    NFIP Flood Claim Borrowing Raises Viability Concerns

    FEMA's recent announcement that it was borrowing $2 billion from the U.S. Treasury to pay National Flood Insurance Program claims related to Hurricanes Helene and Milton emphasizes the insurance program's need for reform amidst threats of agency cuts under the Trump administration, experts say.

  • February 20, 2025

    CRE Brokers Ride 'Park Avenue Phenomenon' In Q4 Results

    Commercial real estate's big brokers reported a flush of capital markets activity in the fourth quarter, with one executive crediting Park Avenue for a normalization in leasing that the brokers expect to continue in the year ahead.

  • February 20, 2025

    Chicago Lawmakers Give Final OK For $7B Mixed-Use Project

    Chicago lawmakers reportedly gave the final green light for a $7 billion mixed-use development project headed by the DLA Piper-guided owners of the city's United Center stadium.

  • February 20, 2025

    Wash. Justices Say CARES Act Doesn't Shield Violent Renters

    The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday said landlords did not have to give 30 days' notice under the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act before evicting violent tenants, settling a question that had split two lower appellate panels.

  • February 20, 2025

    NYC Mayor Unveils Plan To Build Coney Island Homes

    New York City Mayor Eric Adams revealed a new plan Feb. 20 that aims to initially build over 500 mixed-income homes in Brooklyn's Coney Island neighborhood, continuing his push for more housing amid an ongoing affordability crisis.

  • February 20, 2025

    NY Expands Local Power To Give Storm Damage Tax Breaks

    New York state expanded municipalities' authority to provide property tax breaks to owners of property damaged by severe storms and other natural disasters by allowing that relief to be granted for small business' property as part of a bill signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.

  • February 20, 2025

    Fla. Senate Bill Seeks Study On Eliminating Property Taxes

    A Republican Florida state senator filed legislation that would require a state agency to study the prospects of eliminating property taxes in exchange for levying additional state and local sales taxes.

  • February 20, 2025

    Luxury Hotel REIT Says Fire, Hurricane Recoveries Underway

    Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. reported Thursday that it thinks a gradual recovery at its luxury resorts in Maui, Hawaii, may finally be underway after the 2023 fires, adding that the hurricane restoration at a key Florida property should soon be finished.

  • February 20, 2025

    Yellow Corp. Urges Ch. 11 Judge To OK $11.5M Terminal Sales

    Defunct trucking company Yellow Corp. asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to sign off on the $11.5 million private sale of two leased truck terminals to ABF Freight System Inc.

  • February 19, 2025

    Alaskan Village Says Its Immune From Residents' Casino Suit

    An Alaskan Native village is asking a federal district court to dismiss a challenge by a group of Anchorage residents that seeks to block its plans for a 58,000-square-foot casino, arguing that it is a required party in the litigation that has not waived its sovereign immunity.

  • February 19, 2025

    SL Green Can't Escape Property Transfer Fraud Suit

    A New York federal judge refused Wednesday to let SL Green and several of the real estate investment trust's entities escape a fraudulent property transfer suit, but he narrowed state law claims seeking to collect on a related judgment for nearly $13 million.

  • February 19, 2025

    Nixon Peabody Atty On Affordable Housing And Trump Tariffs

    Affordable housing projects may be able to withstand expected price hikes from tariffs more easily than commercial ones, Nixon Peabody LLP's affordable housing leader told Law360 in a recent interview.

Expert Analysis

  • Questions Remain After Mass. Adverse Possession Case

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    A recent Massachusetts Land Court decision, concerning an adverse possession claim on a family company-owned property, leaves open questions about potential applicability to closely held corporations and other ownership types going forward, says Brad Hickey at DarrowEverett.

  • 4 Takeaways From Biden's Crypto Mining Divestment Order

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    A May 13 executive order prohibiting the acquisition of real estate by a foreign investor on national security grounds — an enforcement first — shows the importance of understanding how the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States might profile cross-border transactions, even those that are non-notified, say attorneys at Kirkland.

  • Insurer Quota-Sharing Lessons From $112M Bad Faith Verdict

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    In Indiana GRQ v. American Guarantee and Liability Insurance, an Indiana federal jury recently issued a landmark $112 million bad faith verdict, illustrating why insurers must understand the interplay between bad faith law and quota-sharing before entering into these relatively new arrangements, say Jason Reichlyn and Christopher Sakauye at Dykema. 

  • A Look At New IRS Rules For Domestically Controlled REITs

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    The Internal Revenue Services' finalized Treasury Regulations addressing whether real estate investment trusts qualify as domestically controlled adopt the basic structure of previous proposals, but certain new and modified rules may mitigate the regulations' impact, say attorneys at Simpson Thacher.

  • How New Rule Would Change CFIUS Enforcement Powers

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    Before the May 15 comment deadline, companies may want to weigh in on proposed regulatory changes to enforcement and mitigation tools at the disposal of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, including broadened subpoena powers, difficult new mitigation timelines and higher maximum penalties, say attorneys at Venable.

  • 2nd Circ. Eminent Domain Ruling Empowers Municipalities

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    The Second Circuit's recent decision in Brinkmann v. Town of Southold, finding that a pretextual taking does not violate the Fifth Amendment's takings clause, gives municipalities a powerful tool with which to block unwanted development projects, even in bad faith, say James O'Connor and Benjamin Sugarman at Phillips Lytle.

  • SEC Should Be Allowed To Equip Investors With Climate Info

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new rule to require more climate-related disclosures will provide investors with much-needed clarity, despite opponents' attempts to challenge the rule with misused legal arguments, say Sarah Goetz at Democracy Forward and Cynthia Hanawalt at Columbia University’s Sabin Center for Climate Change.

  • How Cos. Can Comply With New PFAS Superfund Rule

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    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new rule designating two per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances as "hazardous substances" under the Superfund law will likely trigger additional enforcement and litigation at sites across the country — so companies should evaluate any associated reporting obligations and liability risks, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • How EB-5 Regional Centers Can Prepare For USCIS Audits

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    In response to the recently announced U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services guidelines that require EB-5 regional center audits every five years to verify their compliance with immigration and securities laws, regional centers should take steps to facilitate a seamless audit process, say Jennifer Hermansky and Miriam Thompson at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Understanding The IRC's Excessive Refund Claim Penalty

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    Taxpayers considering protective refund claims pending resolution of major questions in tax cases like Moore v. U.S., which is pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, should understand how doing so may also leave them vulnerable to an excessive refund claim penalty under Internal Revenue Code Section 6676, say attorneys at McDermott.

  • Bankruptcy Ruling Shifts Lease Rejection Claim Calculation

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    A New York federal court’s recent ruling in In re: Cortlandt provides guidance on how to calculate a landlord's damages claim when a bankruptcy debtor rejects a lease, changing from an approach that considers the remaining rent due under the lease to one that considers the remaining time, say Bethany Simmons and Noah Weingarten at Loeb & Loeb.

  • What Calif. Eviction Ruling Means For Defaulting Borrowers

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    A California appellate court's recent decision in Homeward Opportunities v. Taptelis found that a defaulting borrower could not delay foreclosure with an improperly served notice of pendency of action, but leaves open a possibility for borrowers to delay eviction proceedings merely by filing lawsuits, say Anne Beehler and Krystal Anderson at Holland & Knight.

  • How 3D Printing And Prefab Are Changing Construction

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    The growing popularity of trends like 3D printing technology and prefabrication in the construction industry have positive ramifications ranging from reducing risks at project sites to streamlining construction schedules, say Josephine Bahn and Jeffery Mullen at Cozen O'Connor.