News & Analysis as of

Regulatory Standards Real Estate Market

Carlton Fields

Digital Collusion or Warp-Speed Competition? Evaluating the Agreement Element in the Algorithmic Pricing Antitrust Cases

Carlton Fields on

Picture this: At a meeting of local landlords, one participant raps his knuckles on the table and announces his grand idea for increasing the group’s collective profits. Each landlord should “independently” contract with a...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Federal Financial Regulatory Agencies Propose Quality Control Standards for Use of Automated Valuation Models

On June 1, six Federal financial regulatory agencies (Agencies) jointly issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the Proposed Rule) requiring the implementation of quality control standards for the use of automated valuation...more

Robinson+Cole Construction Law Zone

A New Template Contract for Prefabricated Construction

Over the past several years, modular construction has been on the rise and this method of construction has been used in the creation of health care facilities, education facilities, and apartment buildings. With the increased...more

White & Case LLP

ESG & EPC: A Match Made for Real Estate Finance Heaven?

White & Case LLP on

The real estate sector is heavily regulated and is no stranger to environmental, social and governance ("ESG")-related policies and requirements. One imminent ESG-focused change affecting the UK real estate sector relates to...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Alterations Provisions April 2022 - Green Loans Series, Part 3 – Green Loan Principles in Real Estate Finance

In our March edition of REF News and Views, we focused on the four core components to qualifying as a Green Loan Principles (“GLP”)-compliant green loan product. As a reminder, the GLP seeks to help facilitate and support...more

Environmental General Counsel PC

Getting Tough on Vapor Intrusion: Enforcement for Failure to Mitigate

As concerns have escalated about vapor intrusion, regulatory agencies are not only taking more conservative approaches to risk – they may also be more likely to take enforcement action where there is delay or non-compliance...more

Hogan Lovells

Doing Business in the UK: Consumer Sector 2020

Hogan Lovells on

The UK’s consumer sector has shown resilience against the backdrop of challenging political and economic conditions. Consumers in the UK remain willing to spend; however, the way in which they do so is changing, with...more

Mayer Brown Free Writings + Perspectives

Could the US Government’s Financial Stability Oversight Council Subject the Residential Mortgage Industry or Mortgage REITs to...

Raise your hand if you are an independent mortgage banker, a residential mortgage real estate investment trust (“mREIT”) or a nonbank investor in residential mortgage loans that would like to be subject to additional federal...more

Lowndes

Hemp in Florida: The Next Green Industrial Revolution this bill

Lowndes on

On June 25, 2019, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 1020 (“SB 1020”) which creates an industrial hemp program in Florida and regulates the statewide cultivation and sale of hemp products. Since the 2018 Farm Bill’s removal...more

Hogan Lovells

French legal and regulatory update - April 2019

Hogan Lovells on

The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e-newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for April 2019. ...more

Hogan Lovells

ACM Cladding: Where are we now?

Hogan Lovells on

On 21 December 2018 the government’s promised ban on the use of aluminium composite (ACM) cladding on residential buildings came into force....more

Hogan Lovells

What happens to ESOS after Brexit?

Hogan Lovells on

Qualifying undertakings can comply with their obligations under the Regulations by having a certified Energy Management System. Post Brexit, certification will still be permitted by bodies accredited by the United Kingdom...more

Bilzin Sumberg

National Security Review of Foreign Investments to Escalate

Bilzin Sumberg on

With its roots in the Exon-Florio Amendment to the Defense Production Act, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), is an inter-agency committee that reviews certain foreign investments in the United...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Uniform Law Commission Proposed New Drone Legislation

New model legislation introduced by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (Uniform Law Commission) seeks to give property owners the right to the airspace above their property from 200 feet and below....more

Bilzin Sumberg

Golf Course Redevelopment: What You Need to Know

Bilzin Sumberg on

As buildable land becomes increasingly scarce, many single-family developers are looking at current and former golf courses as prime sites for redevelopment. What makes golf courses so appealing in this regard? Originally...more

Hogan Lovells

Law Commission gears up for driverless cars

Hogan Lovells on

Just before Christmas, the Law Commission announced plans to develop laws to support the safe development and use of driverless cars in the UK.  The aim is to develop legislation which may be ready as early as 2021....more

Gray Reed

Washed Away: What Rights Do You Have When Your Home is Flooded?

Gray Reed on

Bill Deron bought a 100-acre tract next to a creek outside the City of Houston. Deron planned to build a subdivision where some of the homes abut a creek. The other homes would sit about 15 feet higher than the creekside...more

17 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide