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Strategies For Retailers, Landlords In M&A Portfolio Reduction

With more retailers likely to merge or be acquired in 2026, both landlords and companies looking to renegotiate th... (more story)

4th Circ. Navy Federal Decision Illustrates Nuances Of Rule 23

The Fourth Circuit's recent decision in Oliver v. Navy Federal Credit Union helpfully clarified how class action d... (more story)

Where Ceding Control In Joint Ventures Ups Developer Risks

With new data predicting liquidity will continue drying up in 2026, developers seeking relief via joint venture re... (more story)

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Esquire's $348M Signature Deal Bolsters Litigation Platform

Esquire Financial Holdings Inc. has agreed to buy the parent company of Signature Bank in a roughly $348.4 million deal that Esquire said will help expand its Chicago-area commercial banking presence and suppo... (more story)

Data Center Hyperscalers' Capital Spending Surges To $700B

Capital spending on data centers, the facilities' equipment and infrastructure, is likely to balloon to $700 billion this year for the six U.S. hyperscalers Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Corp., Meta Platforms... (more story)

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JPM's Construction Debt Soars As Wells Has A Major Pullback

JPMorgan's construction debt on the books rose by a whopping $1.5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2025 while Wells Fargo pared its construction loans by that same amount, marking divergent major moves on hold... (more story)

Law Firm Office Leasing Signals Push To Compete In Miami

Law firms have doubled down on the Miami legal scene with new or renewed leases in recent months, leading to what attorneys say is better work-life balance and greater collaboration among employees in the comp... (more story)

3 Firms Guide Texas Developer's Liquidation Plan

The board of directors for Texas-based developer Stratus Properties Inc. have decided that the company must liquidate its assets and dissolve in a liquidation plan guided by Jones Walker LLP, Sidley Austin LLP... (more story)

Pot Landlord's Suit Against Town Over Revocation Trimmed

A Michigan federal judge on Thursday dismissed most claims against a Royal Oak Township official and a government contractor in a suit from a cannabis real estate business alleging its licenses were wrongly revoked.

CMS, Hogan Lovells Lead Savills' $1.1B US RE Lender Buyout

Savills said Thursday that it has agreed to acquire Eastdil Secured in a deal that values the real estate investment bank at $1.11 billion as the British property adviser moves to strengthen its position in gl... (more story)

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Steep Senate Majority Passes Landmark Housing Bill

The U.S. Senate passed landmark legislation Thursday aimed at boosting housing supply and cutting housing costs across the country, with steep bipartisan support despite concerns over a provision that stakehol... (more story)

Fed. Circ. Won't Revive Buy Belize Scam Case

The Federal Circuit on Thursday backed a lower court ruling that tossed a suit filed by investors who claimed the Maryland federal court wrongfully refused to return seized assets that were taken to satisfy it... (more story)

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act combines elements of the Housing for the 21st Century Act and the Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream (ROAD) to Housing Act. (iStock.com/AlexRaths)
Groups Raise Alarm Over Housing Bill Rental Sale Provision

Among changes made last week to a bipartisan housing bill intended to curb institutional investors' ownership of single-family homes was one provision that could effectively stop build-to-rent housing construc... (more story)

Florida Man Can Proceed With $13M Home Straw Buyer Suit

A home seller can pursue claims he would not have sold his Miami Beach property for $13 million had he known it was going to a straw buyer planning to flip the property a year later, a Florida appeals court ru... (more story)

Fla. Voters Reject Terra, Frisbie Redevelopment Project

A majority of voters in Boca Raton, Florida, have shot down a local redevelopment project headed by developer Terra and private real estate investment firm Frisbie Group.

Global Real Estate Investment Jumped 8% In 2025

Global real estate investment rose 8.2% in 2025, with multifamily and industrial leading the way, according to a recent report from Colliers.

MV Realty Settles Mass. AG's Predatory Mortgage Claims

Real estate lender MV Realty's Massachusetts subsidiary and owners have agreed to discharge and release what the state's attorney general has called predatory mortgages peddled to vulnerable homeowners, resolv... (more story)