Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Tenant Is Doing the Work
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Landlord Is Doing the Work
Nonprofit Tenants and Lease Agreements: Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
SDNY Chooses “Time Approach” to Calculating Lease Termination Damages Collectible Against a Bankrupt Estate
When Can Oregon Landlords Terminate Residential Tenancy Without Cause?
Practicing on the Front Lines of Landlord-Tenant Regulations and Housing Law
How Commercial Property Owners Can Collect Unpaid Rent from Commercial Tenants
It’s Lit? Insight into the Increase in Cannabis-Related Litigation in California
Landlord and Tenant Lease Risk Reduction for the Cannabis Industry
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 319: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
Law Brief®: Robert Wolf, Alexander Tiktin and Richard Schoenstein Discuss the Continuing Foreclosure/Eviction Moratorium
[Webinar] Cannabis Real Estate Considerations
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 149: Listen and Learn -- Negligence: Duties of Landlords, Owners, and Possessors of Land
Troutman Pepper COVID-19 Legal Issues Podcast Series: COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends (Part Two)
Commercial/Retail Therapy: Assessing the Pandemic’s Impact on Real Estate
Law Brief®: Debra Bodian Bernstein and Richard Schoenstein Discuss Commercial Lease Defaults During COVID-19
COVID-19 in the Workplace - PPP Update, COVID Plans from the Biden Transition Team, Higher Education Relief Package Provision, COVID WARN Act Developments
COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends (Part One)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 265: Listen and Learn -- Constructive Eviction
Navigating the New Normal: Risk Management and Legal Considerations for Real Estate Companies
Clients often request that their counsel focus lease negotiations exclusively on those terms most likely to have the most significant impact on economics and the long-term relationship with the counterparty. This request...more
As all restaurateurs know, a good location is an essential ingredient in any recipe for long-term success. But controlling costs is also a key factor. Renting your location—rather than actually purchasing real estate...more
Commercial Leases and Risk The lease agreement is one of the most commonly utilized contracts in commercial transactions. Even in today’s mobile and technology-driven commercial landscape, a huge number of businesses and...more
In our ongoing series of blog posts, we will look at several key negotiating points for tenants in triple net health care leases. We will also offer suggestions for certain lease provisions that will protect tenants from...more
This is the first edition of Holland & Knight's Federal Real Estate Leasing Year in Review. For years, our GSA Leasing & Federal Real Estate Team has worked with LexisNexis to provide updated versions of the Federal...more
John Livingston, Kilpatrick’s Real Estate Investment and Development Team Chair, recently spoke at the firm’s inaugural “In-House Counsel Summit” in Durham, North Carolina. This full-day event featured multi-practice CLE...more
Learn More About Environmental Due Diligence and Lease Considerations for Landlords and Tenants - On Tuesday, August 8, from 12–1 p.m. (ET), attorneys from Ulmer's Real Estate practice will host a complimentary webinar on...more
Exclusive use clauses are not uncommon in shopping center leases. Tenants often request these clauses to prevent the landlord from renting space to other tenants who are competitors. Ideally, a shopping center includes a...more
Many legal contracts operate like coordinate harmony. The parties have different roles, but each is equally important to the transaction. Differences in bargaining power may allow one party to have the upper hand, but both...more
Over the course of the last year, commercial landlords have become intimately familiar with the legal principles wielded by tenants to excuse the payment of rent. ...more
Tenants under commercial leases can be viewed like student musicians, with their landlords being like the orchestra or band. Tenants, like student musicians, have wants and needs. But like orchestras and bands, landlords have...more
With our blog post of December 14, 2020, we had already pointed out the corresponding legislative initiative. In record time, two new provisions on commercial leases (excluding residential leases) were subsequently adopted on...more
In Part I of this series, we discussed how COVID-19 had impacted almost every provision of a commercial lease, including the covenant of quiet enjoyment, continuous use provisions and force majeure clauses, among others....more
The real estate needs of life sciences companies can be fluid and complex, with early stage companies typically needing smaller flexible space and later stage companies typically requiring larger build-to-suit space. With an...more
Unlike economic challenges of the past, COVID-19 has immediately and vastly altered the commercial real estate industry on a global scale, and in ways the industry has not previously encountered with the purely economic...more
New York courts are resuming some operations, but eviction proceedings, including for violations of commercial leases, are still suspended. However, those contracts — and the obligations they created — still exist. ...more
As the COVID-19 or novel coronavirus pandemic continues, landlords have increasingly received communication from distressed tenants requesting rent relief and, in some circumstances, lease termination. With government...more
Potential buyers and lenders evaluate existing leases of stabilized properties and anticipated lease income of value-add projects in determining which assets to acquire or finance. Rental income, whether existing or...more
This article is part of a series on Demystifying the Commercial Lease. Previous articles in the series discuss Types of Leases, Letters of Intent, Base Rent, and Common Area Maintenance Charges. This article discusses tenant...more
What is the Assignment Clause and When is it Triggered? Every commercial lease contains an assignment provision that lays out the landlord’s and the tenant’s rights and obligations in the event that the tenant seeks to...more
Leasing commercial space differs from renting a home. Whether you need office, retail, or industrial buildings for your business, commercial properties have their own unique issues, which must be addressed early on. A proper...more
It’s not as easy to try out commercial rental space as it is musical instruments. It’s expensive for the landlord to get the space ready for a tenant, and it’s expensive and disruptive to the tenant’s business to move into a...more
Commercial tenants sometimes bargain for “free rent” periods from landlords as part of the lease negotiation process, and both tenants and landlords may view free rent periods as a “concession” by the landlord in lease...more
In Cogdill v. Sylva Supply Company, Inc., filed May 7, 2019, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held in a split decision and as a matter of first impression that a right of first refusal contained in a written lease...more
An Overview of Assignment Rights - Commercial leases typically contain standard protections for landlords that may be potential pitfalls for tenants seeking to assign or transfer interests in a lease. A lease recapture...more