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Condo Adviser: Condominium Rules and Enforcement
Condo Adviser: Adjacent Development Rights and Objections
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Condo Owners and Dealing with Uncooperative Management Companies
Reserve Funds: Purposes and Common Mistakes
Accessibility Concerns for Disabled Condo Owners
Effective July 1, 2024, Virginia has implemented several significant changes to its real estate laws. In this year’s installment, tenants get a whole lot of protections (kind of), HOAs are put on a tighter leash, and brokers...more
Illinois has passed a number of laws effective 1 January 2024 that impact commercial real estate and development. These new laws range from new requirements for residential landlords, first of its kind electric vehicle...more
Happy Holidays to all. We are still hopeful that Santa brings everyone some relief from rent control and other multifamily restrictions (we heard that the new BEPS Regulations preclude Santa from leaving coal for legislators...more
As a follow-up to our prior alert, we wanted to provide an update to legislative activities in the region: New Prince George’s County Updated Rent Control FAQs. We continue to receive many questions regarding the...more
If you’re my vintage, you might remember Steve Martin’s catchy 1978 hit tune, “King Tut,” whose protagonist “lived in a condo made of stone-a.” Good luck getting this out of your head....more
New legislation in New Jersey has been introduced that, if enacted, will impact tenants, landlords, and planned real estate developments (most commonly condominiums) in the State; one that seeks to strike a balance between...more
A change in state law that takes effect this month now requires New York residential landlords to distribute disability accommodation notices to all current tenants by April 1, 2021, and to all new tenants within 30 days of...more
Twenty-four members of the New York State Senate on Jan. 27, 2021, introduced S-3082, and 43 members of the New York State Assembly on Feb. 19, 2021, introduced A-5573 (collectively, the bills), which would preclude the...more
Executive Order 2020-72 Allows Limited Resumption of Eviction Lawsuits for Collection of Unpaid Assessments by Illinois Condominium and Common Interest Community Associations....more
Every July 1st in Virginia, we can expect a few things without fail. The summer heat and humidity will have settled down with a ponderous thud, here to remain, unwavering, for the rest of the summer. The cicadas return –...more
A recent California Appellate Court decision provided tenants with additional protections when it clarified that local rent control laws applied to a single-family home in which the landlord rented rooms in the home to...more
On March 13, 2020, President Donald Trump declared a national emergency over the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19), a public health emergency that has affected all 50 states, and in conjunction with the Centers for...more
• New York's Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019, which was enacted and became effective on June 14, 2019, will have a sizable impact on a landlord's ability to convert buildings to cooperatives and...more
On July 1, 2019, new laws passed during the 2019 General Assembly session will go into effect in Virginia. As we do every year, Sands Anderson’s Commercial Real Estate and Community Associations Groups have reviewed this new...more
Short-Term Rentals Continue to Gain Market Share - ("Booking Holdings breaks down private accommodation revenues for first time, now at 20% of total," Phocuswire, Feb 27, 2019) Alternative accommodations, including...more
A rent control initiative titled the “Affordable Housing Act” — but criticized by others as the “California Housing Freeze” — has qualified as Proposition 10 on the November 2018 ballot. What is it?...more
House Bill 500, now pending the Maryland General Assembly, provides for a proposed amendment to Section 11-104 of the Maryland Condominium Act that would allow a condominium’s bylaws to include “a restriction or prohibition...more
REAL PROPERTY UPDATE - Foreclosure/Requests for Admission: trial court erred by involuntarily dismissing foreclosure action based solely on lender’s failure to respond to requests for admission because lender’s...more
I. FLORIDA STATE CASES – JOURDAN HAYNES & CHRIS SMART - MRTA: marketable record title act represents codified limitation on title insurer’s obligation to research public records in connection with issuance of title...more