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
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
Varano v. PDJM Land Tr., LLC, 103 Mass. App. Ct. 1127 (2024) - We last wrote about Varano v. PDJM in our November 2022 issue of Law of the Land. In the first iteration of Varano, the Superior Court held that a commercial...more
The King’s speech announced a new Leasehold and Freehold Reform Bill ‘to reform the housing market by making it cheaper and easier for leaseholders to purchase their freehold and tackling the exploitation of millions of...more
The long moratorium on most evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the de facto shutdown of the court system for civil matters, caused most California landlords to defer unlawful detainer and related...more
Following the government’s call for evidence in May this year, the government released the responses and analysis on 4 August 2021, along with an accompanying policy statement. These highlight the starkly differing views of...more
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the commercial real estate market, and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is pursuing relief for certain categories of commercial tenants, including adoption of an ordinance...more
Welcome to the latest edition of Overriding Interest. Inside this issue: - Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard (MEES) - Update for Europe COVID-19: Government Extends Moratorium on Commercial Leases Until March 2022 ...more
On December 1, 2020, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a commercial eviction moratorium ordinance (the Board Ordinance), which Board Ordinance came into effect on January 11, 2021. When the Board...more
The moratorium on landlords evicting commercial tenants has been extended by a longer period than many had expected, to March 2022. Landlords and tenants will also be compelled to enter into arbitration proceedings if they...more
On May 5, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that extends the moratorium on evictions and foreclosures for residential tenants and small businesses to August 31, 2021. The previous moratorium expired May 1,...more
Lately, each day has brought more signs that pandemic restrictions are being loosened and the opportunity for a “return to normal” is growing. But for commercial real estate landlords and tenants, will there be a new normal?...more
30 June 2021 will be a date no doubt circled on many calendars as being the date when landlords in England currently expect to be able to reassert some control following the end of the “temporary” measures proposed and...more
Since we last reported on this topic, many of the residential and commercial eviction moratoriums that were enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been amended, replaced and/or extended. These moratoriums are...more
As an owner or tenant, dealing with real estate has been one of the most significant challenges facing nonprofits during the pandemic. The recently signed SB91 extends California’s residential eviction moratorium to June 30,...more
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020 the New Jersey Courts postponed all commercial landlord/tenant trials and barred the issuance of Writs of Possession arising out of Final Judgments in Foreclosure in...more
On January 28, 2021, Travis County Judge Andy Brown and Austin Mayor Steve Adler announced that the eviction moratorium in Austin and Travis County will be further extended....more
February 9, 2021 Update - As the pandemic extends into 2021, COVID-related emergency eviction moratoria that were rolled out by a variety of jurisdictions in March of 2020 continue to be updated and refined in response to...more
CASES OF NOTE THE SECRET'S OUT Victoria’s Secret Stores, LLC v. Herald Store Owner LLC, 70 Misc. 3d 1206(A) (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Jan. 7, 2021) A New York court recently held that a retailer’s closure due to a state law imposed...more
With COVID-19 raging and many businesses, large and small, seeking to manage their overhead and obligations, commercial landlords and tenants are examining their leases for potential modifications that would enable them to...more
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, many jurisdictions took emergency actions imposing moratoria on residential and commercial evictions affecting properties in Washington State. On March 27, Stoel Rives prepared a guide...more
Under a particular Florida statute, in a commercial eviction, where there is a court order requiring the tenant to pay rent into the court registry during the lawsuit and the tenant fails to pay, the tenant is considered to...more
California voters reject measure to expand rent control - Bullet SFGate – November 4 - Voters on Tuesday soundly rejected a ballot measure that would have let California cities expand rent control in a state where...more
Seven months of working from home (and counting), expanded business hours, restricted building capacities, and daily uncertainty. As winter begins to move into the region, it is unclear how the pandemic will affect businesses...more
On October 20, 2020, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued Executive Order 202.70, which continued through January 1, 2021 the moratorium on initiating a proceeding or enforcement of (a) an eviction of any commercial tenant...more
On June 26, 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the State of Oregon passed House Bill 4213, which restricted a landlord’s ability to enforce certain rights if a tenant failed to pay rent during the “Emergency Period,”...more