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Industrial REIT Says Interest Rates Dampen 2025 Outlook
A Rexford Industrial Realty Inc. executive told investors that, while the real estate investment trust had "solid results" in the fourth quarter, high interest rates and other economic factors are poised to slow its growth in 2025.
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Loeb & Loeb Real Estate Leaders Eye Tariff Mitigation
In the first in a series of Q&As on the Trump administration’s tariffs and their impact on the U.S. construction industry, Law360 Real Estate Authority chatted with two experts at Loeb & Loeb LLP.
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Modern CRE Finance Asks More Of Real Estate Practices
Dramatic shifts are happening in the way commercial real estate is financed. Transactions have gotten “faster, larger and more complicated,” in the words of one attorney, and real estate practices have had to adapt to an evolving sector.
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A developer and the estate for the former owner of a landmark Pittsburgh gay bar have sued two residents of the city's Polish Hill neighborhood, claiming they moved to deem the property historic as a ploy to f... (more story)
A New York state appellate court affirmed a trial court's toss of several claims brought against the late Sol Goldman's real estate empire by inheritors who allege his daughter squeezed them out of the family ... (more story)
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Property developers were thrown into a new regulatory landscape in 2024 when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designated two PFAS as hazardous substances, but there appears to be even more upheaval on the horizon.
A Georgia state court judge sided Thursday with a railroad company in an eminent domain fight with residents opposing the construction of a rail spur through their property, upholding a Georgia Public Service ... (more story)
A onetime financial adviser to UpHealth is opposing the debtor's Chapter 11 plan, Hearthside Food Solutions' official committee of unsecured creditors has balked at the company's executive bonus proposal in ba... (more story)
Ballard Spahr LLP plans to move 60 of its attorneys and other employees to a new downtown Denver office in August, having signed an 11-year lease for 19,000 square feet of space, the law firm announced Friday.
Greenberg Traurig LLP has added former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner Daniel Elrod as a shareholder in its Chicago real estate practice, bringing experience advising debt funds, life insurance companies an... (more story)
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Borrowers who accused Rocket Mortgage of inflating their home values have asked the full Fourth Circuit to reconsider a panel ruling that reversed their class certification, arguing that the panel only reverse... (more story)
A Florida state appeals court has reinstated the original verdict against an attorney husband and wife team for breaching a lease agreement on a rental house and leaving it in disrepair, ruling that a reasonab... (more story)
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Southern California Edison told a state energy regulator that it believes its utility equipment might have ignited last month's Hurst Fire in northern Los Angeles County, but it's still investigating the cause... (more story)
Beacon Roofing Supply Inc.'s board of directors is urging shareholders to reject an $11 billion hostile takeover bid by QXO Inc., noting the offer is no different from the technology and software company's earlier proposal.
Three brothers from Florida, including two prominent real estate executives, denied sex-trafficking charges in Manhattan federal court Friday alleging they conspired to drug and rape women, as a prosecutor sai... (more story)
Crypto-exchange Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell sued the owner of a landmark condominium — dubbed "Susie's Building" — in California state court Wednesday, claiming the property's allegedly "elite" Democratic s... (more story)