Vacation Rental Owners Face Stiff Headwinds Around Oregon
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Landlord Is Doing the Work
Nonprofit Tenants and Lease Agreements: Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
Creative Housing Solutions Pop Up Across Oregon
Red Hot Apartment Investment Market Starts to Cool
State Land Use Board Weighs in on Oregon Coast Fight Over Short Term Rentals
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
Law Brief®: Robert Wolf, Alexander Tiktin and Richard Schoenstein Discuss the Continuing Foreclosure/Eviction Moratorium
Managing Apartment Turnover: From Launch to $10M Series A, with Rent Ready's Jonathan Kite
Goran Musinovic on Healthcare Real Estate Compliance
Troutman Pepper COVID-19 Legal Issues Podcast Series: COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends (Part Two)
Law Brief®: Debra Bodian Bernstein and Richard Schoenstein Discuss Commercial Lease Defaults During COVID-19
COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends (Part One)
Williams Mullen's COVID-19 Comeback Plan: Landlord and Tenant Negotiations for Existing Commercial Leases Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
When managing commercial real estate, landlords must navigate a complex array of legal, financial and operational challenges to protect their investments and ensure smooth tenant relationships. However, a series of common...more
PHILADELPHIA — City Council Moves to Ban AI Rent “Price-Fixing” - The Philadelphia City Council advanced legislation that would empower the City to sue landlords for alleged “price-fixing” of rental rates, particularly...more
In our ongoing series of blog posts, we have examined key negotiating points for tenants in triple net health care leases....more
The U.S. Congress is currently considering the “Accelerated Supply of Affordable Production [ASAP] Housing Act” (the “Act”), legislation to address the nationwide affordable housing shortage and surrounding real estate...more
On September 30, 2024, Governor Newsom approved California Senate Bill No. 1103, which extends certain rights previously reserved for residential tenants to “qualified commercial tenants,” which includes any tenant that is...more
The Renters' Rights Bill 2024 proposes to introduce important changes to the UK rental market affecting both the build-to-rent and purpose-built student accommodation ("PBSA") sectors alike....more
Commercial lease law is constantly evolving, with court rulings providing particularly interesting insights into the negotiation and management of commercial leases. Our selection of some of the High Court’s major decisions...more
El pasado 3 de octubre de 2024 se publicaron en la Gaceta Oficial de la Ciudad de México reformas relevantes a la Ley para la Reconstrucción Integral de la Ciudad de México (en lo sucesivo la "LRICDMX"), la Ley de Vivienda...more
Beginning Jan. 1, 2025, California commercial property owners will have to contend with new (and expanded) tenant protections for any small business or nonprofit that is a “qualified commercial tenant” under SB 1103. More...more
Was unterscheidet gesetzliche und gewillkürte Schriftform, elektronische Form, Textform und telekommunikative Übermittlung? Das gesetzliche Schriftformerfordernis für langfristige Gewerberaummietverträge wird von vielen...more
With the Government’s push to attract talents to Hong Kong in the past years, rental accommodation has become a hot topic in the city, whether under the auspices of student accommodation, talent housing, workers dormitories...more
The announcement of the upcoming Renters’ Rights Bill has left many landlords keen to bring assured shorthold tenancies (ASTs) to an end before the changes become law. Reports have emerged of some landlords, perhaps in too...more
Last week, Mayor Cherelle Parker joined the Community College of Philadelphia (CCP) to launch the new City College for Municipal Employment, which will train students specifically for local government jobs. The program aims...more
The western burrowing owl secured temporary protection this Thursday under California’s Endangered Species Act. The state Fish and Game Commission voted to give the owls candidate status and temporary protection, expected to...more
The field of real estate law and commercial leasing is established and well-tested. For this reason, most landlords and tenants that enter into negotiations with their legal team and real estate brokers are very familiar with...more
As the fall hunting season approaches, Florida landowners may contemplate leasing their land to an individual or group for hunting purposes. For many owners, drafting such a specialized lease may be daunting, as they have to...more
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a groundbreaking settlement with Invitation Homes, a large single-family rental home owner/operator, on September 24. ...more
Few would disagree that elements of the English rental sector are ripe for a reshape. The Renters' Rights Bill (the Bill) aims to equip vulnerable tenants paying for substandard accommodation with protection against the...more
Lawyers love obscure rules about giving three-day notices—the kind that California landlords hate. The decision in City of Alameda v. Sheehan, published September 13, 2024, teaches that there is a wrong way to issue a notice...more
The Civil Code for the Federal District is amended to prevent rent increases for residential properties from exceeding the inflation rate reported by the Bank of Mexico. On August 28, 2024, the Official Gazette of Mexico...more
Since the publication of our blog, Tenants Beware: The Risks of Landlord Tax Liabilities, draft legislation released by the Department of Finance on August 12, 2024, has proposed a change to the Income Tax Act (Canada) (the...more
Invitation Homes, the nation’s largest landlord of single-family homes, has agreed to pay $48 million and to stop a significant number of its rental practices, including misleading renters about lease costs and charging...more
On September 11, 2024, the 4th Circuit held that a named plaintiff in a putative class action failed to establish a concrete injury that could satisfy the injury-in-fact requirement for Article III standing against consumer...more
On the multifamily front, transactions are picking up. The benefits of the interest rate cut by the Fed are offset somewhat by the increasingly complex legal and regulatory environment impacting multifamily properties,...more
Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •California Sues Exxon for Allegedly Fueling Plastics...more