![CFIUS, which is housed in the U.S. Treasury Department, generates an annual report to Congress that focuses on reviewing deals involving purchases of U.S. businesses, but does not include details on what factors are considered during its reviews. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)](https://assets.law360news.com/1862000/1862375/b62eed790e514a371f48563ab8ec9a0e45232ba1-ukraine_war_russia_economy_26738.jpg)
CFIUS Report Says More On Real Estate Than Meets The Eye
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' latest report to Congress shows no significant change in the number of real estate-related cases the committee reviewed in 2023, but that does not mean properties weren't on the government's radar, attorneys say.
![Weyerhaeuser also announced a $244 million purchase of 84,300 acres of timberland in Alabama, having closed out $48 million of the larger deal and expecting to finalize the rest by year's end. (Photo by Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)](https://assets.law360news.com/1861000/1861195/9e03a60f616a1e67eb65474a19f7f93db2be713e-photo_illustration_in_brazil_-_20_dec_2022_44993.jpg)
Weyerhaeuser CEO Expects Single-Family Sector To 'Hold Up'
Weyerhaeuser Co. is confident the single-family market will hold up in the third quarter despite slumping sales as high mortgage rates persist, the lumber real estate investment trust said on its quarterly earnings call Friday.
![Harbor view of Providence, Rhode Island, is pictured. A Rhode Island judge this found in favor of beachfront property owners, saying that a legislators' decision to move public beach access from the mean tide line to as much as 70 feet landward amounted to a taking. (iStock)](https://assets.law360news.com/1860000/1860278/17e82f44920aa3b8b72ab5bd3efd96a1df546a36-rhode-island.jpg)
How Hinckley Allen Took On Rhode Island Beach-Access Law
A Rhode Island judge this month sided with beachfront property owners, represented by Hinckley Allen & Snyder LLP, ruling that a 2023 law that shifts the public access line landward amounts to a taking.
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A shareholder of 3D-imaging and digitization venture Matterport Inc. has launched a Delaware Court of Chancery lawsuit seeking company documents, citing concerns that the business was selling itself to global ... (more story)
InterVest Capital Partners, a firm supported by Kuwait's public pension fund, has sued in New York state court to foreclose on a $124.5 million loan for a 47-story office tower at 30 Broad Street in New York's... (more story)
![Digital Realty's CEO told analysts on Friday that the REIT is seeing more constraints on available power for data centers in such high-demand places as Northern Virginia and California's Silicon Valley. (iStock)](https://assets.law360news.com/1862000/1862000/931b9da046e144143e9cfecb511c30cc957b3164-data-center.jpg)
Digital Realty has its eye on the possibility that pressures on electrical networks might create delays for the company's pipeline of new data centers, the real estate investment trust's CEO said in an earnings call.
The D.C. Circuit on Friday rejected an emergency bid to stop Amtrak from taking control of Washington, D.C.'s Union Station, but did not dismiss the case outright, ruling that efforts to stop the eminent domai... (more story)
Marcus & Millichap affiliate IPA Capital Markets said it arranged $85 million in financing for a two-story Class A industrial property in Queens, New York.
Robinson+Cole hired Kimberly A. Sigler, the former Bose Corp. assistant general counsel and a company director, as a partner for its real estate group in Boston, the firm announced.
Torose Equities acquired an 8,700-square-foot, single-tenant retail property located at 910 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Florida, the real estate investment firm announced Friday.
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A group of short-term rental owners in Colorado urged a federal court on Thursday to reject a city's bid to dismiss their suit, which claims a 2023 ordinance that regulates where short-term rentals can operate... (more story)
A technology-focused community group in California has joined a chorus of advocates calling for the Federal Communications Commission to hit the brakes on a proposal to tighten rules for bulk billing in multit... (more story)
![McGough Construction has won a $94 million contract from the U.S. General Services Administration to replace the "outmoded" facilities of a Dunseith, North Dakota, land port entry. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)](https://assets.law360news.com/1862000/1862407/8a58b90510da3fe0e0d46b4d02383d390142391f-federal_fleet_unrepaired_recalls_75935.jpg)
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Flagstar Bank NA announced Thursday that it has inked a $1.4 billion deal to sell its residential mortgage servicing business to nonbank mortgage originator Mr. Cooper, as Flagstar and parent New York Communit... (more story)