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California FAIR Plan Is Outgrowing Last-Resort Role

With a recent rate increase, a litigation win and pending legislation to reshape operations, the California FAIR P... (more story)

DOJ's FCA Push Creates Risks For Construction Contractors

The construction industry may be uniquely vulnerable to a new generation of False Claims Act enforcement driven by... (more story)

Fed Report Underscores Focus On Nonbank, CRE Risks

The Federal Reserve Board's latest supervision and regulation report highlights that broad systemic stability will... (more story)

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Dutch Co. Wants To Shuffle Golf Course Dispute To Arbitration

A Dutch company contracted by a Louisiana golf course developer asked a federal judge Monday to send its dispute with the company to the Netherlands Arbitration Institute, arguing that the terms of their disag... (more story)

Mass. Data Center's Expansion Paused For Now

A Massachusetts state judge temporarily blocked a data center's expansion plans in Lowell on Monday, finding opponents of the project may be poised to succeed on the basis that they weren't given a full opport... (more story)

CoreCivic announced that it sold a detention facility in Minnesota and another in Kansas to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a combined $734 million. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)
CoreCivic Continues ICE Sales Streak With $734M In Deals

CoreCivic announced Wednesday that it has sold two detention facilities to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a combined $734 million, adding to the company's recent run of deals with the federal government.

CREXi Can't Stay CoStar Case For Quinn Emanuel DQ Appeal

A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from ... (more story)

Neighbors Say School Project Flooded Farm, Native Graves

The renovation of a high school campus outside Pittsburgh has diverted natural springs and stormwater runoff and caused flooding on a neighboring farm, and may have disturbed Native American burial grounds, th... (more story)

Complex Summer Camp Sales Win Bankruptcy Court Approval

A New Jersey bankruptcy judge Monday approved sales of more than two dozen U.S. summer camps, capping an intense, complicated and emotionally charged process that lawyers said saved the camps from closing this... (more story)

Ferragamo Beats Eviction Claim In Palm Beach Lease Row

A Florida federal judge has dismissed most of a jewelry store's lawsuit against its landlord Ferragamo USA Inc. over allegedly faulty patches to repeated leaks in a Palm Beach store, finding that Ferragamo's a... (more story)

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Crypto, Data Center Noise Has 'Shattered' NC Town, Suit Says

A cryptocurrency mining and artificial intelligence data center in rural North Carolina is emitting a cacophony that is destroying local residents' quality of life, according to neighbors who allege the operat... (more story)

4 Firms Guide TPG Mortgage's $117M Cherry Hill REIT Buy

Residential mortgage real estate investment trust TPG Mortgage Investment Trust Inc. will acquire fellow residential mortgage REIT Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corp. for more than $117 million in a cash and... (more story)

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NYC Extends Deadline For Pied-À-Terre Tax Exemptions

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has extended the deadline for applying for exemptions from a "pied-à-terre" tax on second NYC homes that the city values at $1 million or more, setting the new deadline as Sept. 18.

NYC Real Estate Week In Review

Cole Schotz and Fried Frank are among the law firms that landed work on the largest New York City real estate deals that became public last week, with a $238 million Manhattan trade leading the way.

NYC Homeowners Say City Flubbed 2nd Home Tax Launch

A trio of New York City homeowners sued over the city's implementation of the "pied-à-terre" tax on certain second NYC homes, claiming the city shouldn't have made their names and addresses public, and also wr... (more story)

3 Firms Guide £400M Blackstone, Regis UK Housing Deal

Government pension organization Border to Coast Pensions Partnership will pay £400 million ($539.6 million) to U.K. landlord Leaf Living, which was founded by Blackstone and real estate giant Regis, for an 866... (more story)

Trump Renews Bid To Oust Fed's Cook Over Mortgage Claims

The White House has notified Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook that President Donald Trump is "considering" moving again to oust her from the central bank, setting up another potential legal battle after the U.S.... (more story)