By: Practical Guidance Real Estate, Construction, and Finance Attorney Teams PRACTICAL GUIDANCE RECENTLY COMPLETED ITS ANNUAL PRIVATE MARKET DATA REAL ESTATE SURVEY. This survey, which ran from August 25 through September 30, 2023, asked nearly 80 real estate...
By: S.H. Spencer Compton , COMMONWEALTH LAND TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY Interested in access to private market intelligence? Private Market Data offers attorneys private information about highly negotiated agreements not otherwise available or provided in...
By: The Practical Guidance Real Estate Team This tracker provides an overview of New York climate change legislation that impacts real estate ownership and development. This document tracks legislation enacted at the state level and in New York City. This tracker...
By: Stephen Del Percio , AECOM National governments globally are struggling to enact legislation that will bind them to the world’s carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, and unfortunately in some cases even reach consensus...
By: John Erskine , NOSSAMAN LLP This article discusses the legal and policy framework for addressing sea level rise (SLR) in the 21st century in the United States, with an emphasis on the California Coastal Act (the Coastal Act), its administrative regulations...
By: Eric B. Levine, LINDABURY, MCCORMICK, ESTABROOK & COOPER, P.C. This article discusses several key considerations for evaluating cybersecurity and data privacy practices when counseling owners of commercial real estate (CRE). THE ARTICLE ALSO DETAILS...
FEDERAL COURT FAST TRACKS REVIEW OF RULING BLOCKING IMPLEMENTATION OF OVERTIME REGULATIONS THE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ISSUED A BRIEF order December 8 granting expedited review of a November 22 ruling by a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas...
ENERGY DEPARTMENT UNVEILS ROADMAP SEEKING TO DOUBLE U.S. ENERGY PRODUCTIVITY BY 2030 THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY HAS UNVEILED A strategic plan laying out a path businesses, state and local governments, consumers, and other stakeholders can use to double U.S...
By: Thomas G. Maira , Reed Smith LLP. As funds raised in the 2006–2008 heyday of private equity reach the ends of their 10 year terms, there has been a surge of restructurings of those funds utilizing a stapled secondarystructure. The widely publicized...
STUDY ON INJECTION WELL INDUCED EARTHQUAKES THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (USGS) RECENTLY released its short-term forecast for seismic activity. For the first time, it includes a discussion of “Induced Earthquakes.” The study, which comes after a significant...
By: Scott L. Semer , Torys LLP. FOR OVER 30 YEARS, NON-U.S. INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES who invest in U.S. real estate have been subject to tax both on operating income and gains realized upon exiting the investment. There have been limited exceptions, primarily...
SEVENTEEN STATE “NEW ENERGY FUTURE” COALITION FORMED GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO AND 16 OTHER GOVERNORS signed the Governors’ Accord for a New Energy Future. The accord describes six shared goals, diversification of energy generation and expansion...
By: Spencer Compton , First American Title Insurance Company LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: Real Estate > Commercial Purchase and Sales > 1031 Exchanges > Practice Notes Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code provides that no gain or loss...
HIGH-IMPACT EVENT TO GLOBAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM MORE LIKELY, PREDICT FINANCIAL PROFESSIONALS ACCORDING TO ONE MEASURE, RECENT WORLD EVENTS have financial professionals unnerved. Forty-five percent of those surveyed by the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation...
By: S.H. Spencer Compton and Diane Schottenstein EVERY REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY HEADLINE TODAY SEEMS to trumpet the decline of retail leasing and the advent of e-commerce: the so-called “Amazon Effect.” 1 One recent article recounts the impact of Amazon...