Two construction workers adjust vertical steel rebar rods while laying light gray concrete masonry unit blocks on a building site.

Incablocks Seek To Be Solution For Multiple Building Woes

A California-based company says its system of lightweight, interlocking concrete blocks could help address multiple challenges confronting the construction and real estate industries, from housing shortages to threats from hurricanes and wildfires.

Aerial view of data center

How Iran War Is Complicating Middle East Data Center Deals

The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has not stopped data center investments in the region, but experts say force majeure clauses have come under a magnifying glass at the negotiating table.

Exterior of Federal Reserve building

How The Fed's Rate Hike May Affect Real Estate

Real estate practitioners mostly downplayed the immediate impact that Wednesday's widely anticipated interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve will likely have on the industry, but they also noted the significant challenges that reinforced expectations for a "higher-for-longer" rate environment portends for financing and project advancement.

Expert Analysis

PFAS Risks Require Due Diligence Beyond Compliance

Maribel Nicholson-Choice and Sven Kleinhans

While traditional environmental due diligence questions remain important, concern over perfluoroalkyl and polyfluo... (more story)

Wis. Coverage Ruling Rejects Strict Ensuing Loss Test

Alexander Hopkins

In Cincinnati Insurance v. Ropicky, the Wisconsin Supreme Court recently examined the relationship between an insu... (more story)

How Data Center Projects Can Navigate Wyo. Siting Process

Jeffrey Pope

As opposition to data center development grows nationwide, the way that Wyoming is handling the issue through its ... (more story)

Commercial More

Holland & Knight Report: Housing Top Target Of CEQA Suits

More than a quarter of recent California Environmental Quality Act appeals have targeted Golden State housing projects, with residential projects accounting for the largest share of such litigation, according ... (more story)

Hemp Shop Owner Hits LA With $10M Suit Over Raids

A Black entrepreneur claims he was run out of business through unlawful and racially motivated raids on his hemp shop by the Los Angeles Police Department, in a lawsuit in state court that seeks $10 million in... (more story)

JLL office in Brisbane stock photo (iStock.com/Marlon Trottmann)
JLL Finds NY Law Firms Jockeying For Top Office Space In '26

In New York, the biggest law firms so far this year have clamored to take as much top-quality office space as they can, contributing to a scarcity of trophy space as they seek to compete for talent, according to broker JLL. 

Wilentz Goldman Adds Land Use, Real Estate Ace In NJ

Wilentz Goldman & Spitzer PA has hired ex-Prime Tuvel & Miceli partner Danielle N. Kinback to be a shareholder for its environmental, land use and redevelopment teams in New Jersey.

Mich. Wineries Say Appeal Bid Would Delay Event Dispute

A group of Michigan wineries has opposed Peninsula Township's request for an interlocutory appeal in its ongoing suit over hosting special events, arguing that the township is attempting to improperly bypass a... (more story)

Hyperion, GCM Start $200M Grocery-Anchored Retail Fund

Hyperion Realty Capital and GCM Grosvenor have partnered to establish a closed-end investment fund that aims to raise $200 million to invest in "value-add grocery-anchored shopping centers across the Western U... (more story)

Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Latham, McDermott

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Royal Caribbean invests billions in a joint venture with Sandals, Telix Pharmaceuticals buys ITM Isotope Technologies Munich, and Priority Technology makes a go-pri... (more story)

Residential More

X.AI Sued Over Memphis-Area Data Center Noise

Elon Musk's Colossus data centers and other xAI-operated facilities are "wreaking havoc" on Memphis-area communities, according to a federal lawsuit filed by homeowners who claim they are "plagued by excessive... (more story)

Investor Says Colo. Real Estate Firm Hid PE Priority Deal

An investor claimed in state court that a Colorado industrial real estate company secretly gave an outside private equity firm a priority stake in exchange for a $26.5 million investment after enticing existin... (more story)

Man in suit stands at podium with mic
Trump, Mamdani Vow To Build Affordable Housing In Queens

President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that their administrations will work together to build a 12,000-unit affordable housing project in Queens.

Insurer Owes Fla. Condo $1.4M For Irma Damage, Interest

A Florida federal judge said an insurer must pay about $1.4 million to a condominium association to fulfill an appraisal award for property damage from Hurricane Irma, finding the insurer must also pay prejudg... (more story)

Simpson Thacher Steers JLL Plan To Launch Nontraded REIT

Brokerage JLL plans to focus on handling commercial real estate debt with the launch of a new nontraded real estate investment trust advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

Calif. Smoke Damage Laws Aimed At Insurance Law Clarity

New Golden State law on smoke-damaged homes could help bring clarity to a contentious area of insurance litigation. Standards for testing will help determine the bottom line for insurers.

Homebuilder Says Town Improperly Hiked Impact Fees By 70%

A town in northern Colorado increased development impact fees by approximately 70% without conducting an analysis to support the change and repeatedly refused to meet with a Colorado homebuilder that paid the ... (more story)