AI Bolstered Proptech Development, Growth In 2025
Amid the ongoing frenzy over artificial intelligence, the property technology sector showed signs of maturing in 2025 along with an upswing in investments.
A Blockbuster Year For Data Centers
Booming demand drove an explosive year for growth in the data center sector in 2025, with deals getting larger, more multifaceted and more complex for legal teams to pull off.
Attorneys Break Down COPA Bill Poised To Pass In NYC
As a bill to give nonprofits the opportunity to buy some residential buildings is gaining momentum toward possible passage in the New York City Council this month, real estate attorneys are analyzing the policy's potentially far-reaching impact.
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The New York State Office of Cannabis Management is putting its weight behind a Long Island dispensary's bid seeking to invalidate a township's zoning ordinance requiring such businesses to secure special perm... (more story)
A Florida state judge on Thursday dissolved an injunction blocking the transfer of Miami-Dade College-owned land to the state for the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library and dismissed the suit challenging the transfer.
The New York State Gaming Commission granted three casino licenses to New York City for projects proposed in Queens and the Bronx, finalizing a tiered license system tied to the size of applicants' investments.
Drops in the tax valuations of a Hilton hotel and convention center in Minneapolis, including a $70 million cut during one year, were wrongly ordered by the Minnesota Tax Court, the local assessor said, urging... (more story)
The Chicago Bears will consider locations for a proposed new stadium outside the city, including in Indiana, because Illinois lawmakers have not supported their plan for suburban Arlington Heights, team Presid... (more story)
Texas-based Howard Hughes Holdings Inc., led by Latham & Watkins LLP, on Thursday announced plans to acquire private equity-backed specialty insurance and reinsurance company Vantage Group Holdings Ltd., advis... (more story)
While the hotel sector in 2025 welcomed signs of normalization after whipsaw results during the past five years, headwinds generated by an uncertain economy and other events stalled any hopes of a breakout yea... (more story)
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Florida's Supreme Court agreed Thursday that counties and tax collectors could not reopen a bond validation judgment issuing $5 billion in bonds for renewable energy and hurricane mitigation projects, ruling t... (more story)
The use of artificial intelligence in hiring practices is among the areas targeted by a sweeping new mandate enacted by New Jersey's Division on Civil Rights meant to shore up protections against discrimination.
Greenberg Traurig-advised mortgage lender UWM Holdings Corp. on Wednesday unveiled plans to acquire mortgage servicing rights-focused REIT Two Harbors Investment Corp., led by Jones Day, in an all-stock deal t... (more story)
Homie Tech Inc. told the Tenth Circuit that the National Association of Realtors can't paint its broker members as third parties in an effort to duck the residential brokerage startup's antitrust claims over a... (more story)
The IRS published Thursday the amounts of unused housing credit carryovers allocated to qualified states for 2025.
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP, Paul Hastings LLP, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP and DLA Piper were among the law firms that advised the biggest New York City real estate deals in deed filings last week, ... (more story)
A group of former Gibbons PC clients has sued the firm in New Jersey state court for allegedly waiting too long to file an appeal of a $35 million judgment in an insurance company's suit against a real estate ... (more story)