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Race Is On As California Housing Zoning Mandate Is Now Law

A California law that took effect Wednesday and aims to increase housing near transit hubs has many cities up and down the state scrambling as they wait to hear back on their proposals for exemptions or exclusions.

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Atty-Turned-Developer Helped Add Teeth To Fla. Housing Law

Amendments to Florida's landmark Live Local Act, signed into law Friday, could make it harder for municipalities to discriminate against affordable-housing projects. Lawyer-turned-developer Michael Wohl, who lobbied for changes to the law after years of litigation, explained why he thinks the new provisions could make a big difference in Florida’s efforts to improve housing affordability.

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Attys Welcome Housing Bill But Say It's Not An Overnight Fix

Attorneys focused on affordable housing say that bipartisan legislation to address housing affordability contains welcome tweaks to existing programs, but will not fundamentally change the market dynamics that place housing out of reach for many.

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8 Ways 2026's Market Divide Is Rewriting Real Estate Risk

Josephine Bahn and Jeffery Mullen

As construction activity increasingly concentrates in data centers, healthcare and other resilient sectors, real e... (more story)

A Calif. Law May Aid Homeowner Recovery After LA Fires

Keith Meyer and Kya Coletta

Reconstruction bottlenecks following the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires mean that certain homeowners insurance... (more story)

Tracking The Rare 'Quick Look' Win In FTC's Zillow-Redfin Suit

Mary Helen Wimberly and Sandhya Taneja

The Federal Trade Commission’s suit claiming that Zillow illegally paid Redfin to exit the apartment rental market... (more story)

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The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, wi... (more story)

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.

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Latham, Jones Day Guide $6B Hyperscale Data Center JV

Realty Income Corp., Cloud Capital and others have formed a hyperscale data center joint venture, advised by Latham & Watkins LLP and Jones Day, that's already agreed to acquire three Northern Virginia data ce... (more story)

The Year Donald Trump Won Big At The High Court

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.

Sports And Real Estate: A Special Report

Nowadays, professional sports are as deeply woven into the real estate and legal industries as they are into American culture. In this special report, Law360 Real Estate Authority examines the most recent inte... (more story)

From Site Selection To Opening Day, A Land Use Atty's View

When fans of the Major League Soccer club Inter Miami CF walked into Nu Stadium for the first time this spring, they probably saw in the sea of pink seats the "House That Leo Messi Built." But behind the const... (more story)

Sports Facility Financing Gets Creative

As more professional sports teams seek new arenas and practice facilities, teams and governments are continuing to expand the possibilities of how to finance such projects.

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Musick Peeler Associate Seized On A World Cup Opportunity

A year and a half ago, a European committee asked Giorgio Sassine to give advice on California law to Olympic athletes with their sights on the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. Shortly after meeting with the committ... (more story)

The Top Firms Guiding Recent Sports Real Estate Deals

For a special summer issue on sports coinciding with the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Law360 Real Estate Authority took a look at which law firms have worked on arenas, stadiums and other recent sports real estate mat... (more story)

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NYC Landlord Attorneys Decry Rent Freeze, Expect Challenge

After the mayor-appointed board that sets rent increases each year voted to freeze rents in New York City's 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, enacting a key portion of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's agenda, attorn... (more story)

The Legal Work Behind Building A Successful Sports District

The sight of a football arena looming over a sea of empty parking spaces may soon be a thing of the past, as more sports teams and cities in the U.S. redevelop the land around stadiums into bustling mixed-use ... (more story)

Fed Nears CRA Rule Repeal As FDIC, OCC Exit 5th Circ. Fight

Federal regulators plan to take different legal approaches to completing their previously joint effort to unwind Biden-era updates to decades-old community reinvestment rules for banks, according to two filing... (more story)

Spain's Antitrust Enforcer Probing Mortgage Brokerage Cos.

Spain's antitrust authority is currently looking into multiple mortgage brokerages for "possible anticompetitive practices" such as price-fixing, the authority has announced.

CoStar Pushes Back In Antitrust Suit, Seeks Virginia Transfer

CoStar Group has urged a Washington, D.C., federal judge to transfer a brokerage's antitrust lawsuit against the company to Virginia federal court, citing a mandatory forum selection clause in its terms of ser... (more story)