/real-estate-authority/residential?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Real Estate Authority Residential Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:07:03 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411333?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411333 A Seventh Circuit judge on Friday pressed counsel for a building owner, which opposes a Chicago law requiring owners of foreclosed rental properties to pay tenants a relocation fee or offer a new lease, to address the limits of its argument that those fees are an unconstitutional taking of its property. Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:36:59 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411411?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411411 North Carolina's governor and the state insurance commissioner are calling on Congress to pass a bill that would cover homes on the brink of collapsing into the ocean under the National Flood Insurance Program — a problem currently plaguing the state's shoreline, where coastal erosion has claimed 27 homes along the Outer Banks since 2020. Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:17:46 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411529?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411529 Delaware would extend a tax payment deadline for New Castle County property owners until the end of the year under a bill unanimously approved by state lawmakers and headed to the governor. Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:23:48 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2406810?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2406810 Smith Anderson Blount Dorsett Mitchell & Jernigan LLP has welcomed land use duo Robin Tatum as partner and Catherine Hill as counsel, expanding the firm's land use practice in its office in Raleigh, North Carolina, where it is based. The lawyers, who are joined by paralegal Amanda Ball, arrive from Fox Rothschild LLP. Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:31:45 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2408085?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2408085 Low-income Georgians and rural Georgians face several barriers to accessing legal services, including living in a legal desert, according to a Georgia Supreme Court committee’s report. The panel's proposal allowing "limited licensed legal practitioners" to assist with civil housing and consumer debt matters could improve access to justice across the state. Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:06:06 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411040?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411040 Investment firm Geosam Capital and investment manager Group RMC will redevelop a 44-acre Carmel, Indiana, office building into a mixed-use property that will include a hotel, as well as residential, office and retail areas. Fri, 14 Nov 2025 12:46:05 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411220?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411220 H&R Real Estate Investment Trust announced that it is negotiating the sale of $2.6 billion in assets, guided by Blake Cassels and Fasken Martineau, after a special committee rejected wholesale acquisition offers. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:01:10 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411026?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2411026 The North Carolina Business Court plowed into the fourth quarter with two big decisions in insurance disputes that involved $50 million in COVID-19-related losses at a chain of outlet malls, and an industrial accident at a Nucor Corp. iron plant in Louisiana. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:18:37 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410419?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410419 A Washington property management company did not merit an exclusion from state gross income for payments to onsite employees, a state appeals court panel ruled, upholding a trial court decision and denying a nearly $500,000 refund bid. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:14:38 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410463?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410463 Wells Fargo can't shed a proposed class action alleging it improperly charged mortgage borrowers certain fees and failed to properly remediate the issue, according to a ruling by a San Francisco federal judge, which also trimmed some claims. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:30:56 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410776?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410776 The public housing authority in Charlotte, North Carolina, has called a former coordinator's attempt to revive long-dismissed claims in her hostile work environment case that already went to trial "confusing" and "frivolous," saying the court should dismiss her request outright. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:14:31 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410750?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410750 A Boston condominium owned by a cooperative was correctly assessed, a Massachusetts panel ruled in a decision released Thursday, declining to reduce the tax valuation to the amount the co-op's remaining shareholder said she could receive for her shares. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:59:26 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410655?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410655 Shutts & Bowen LLP announced Thursday that a real estate attorney has returned to the firm as a partner in Orlando, Florida, after having stepped away from legal work to run a family-owned candle business with her brother. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:43:35 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410700?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410700 Multifamily real estate investment trust Elme Communities has wrapped up its $1.6 billion portfolio sale of 19 multifamily communities to a Cortland Partners LLC affiliate and borrowed a $520M senior secured term loan from Goldman Sachs Bank USA, the REIT announced. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:35:22 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410699?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410699 A standalone condominium unit in Massachusetts was overvalued, the state Appellate Tax Board said in a decision released Thursday, agreeing with the owners that the property lacked the updates of those used for value comparisons by the local assessor. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:25:11 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410003?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410003 The New York City Council unanimously approved a plan to rezone 54 blocks in Long Island City on Wednesday, enabling the construction of 14,700 new housing units with significant affordability mandates. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:04:07 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410613?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410613 Fox Rothschild LLP has added a partner in Dallas from Steptoe & Johnson PLLC who boasts decades of experience advising clients on retail and mixed-use developments, as well as affordable housing projects. Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:48:09 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410842?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410842 Ohio would make changes to its process for adjusting proposed property values for tax purposes under a bill unanimously approved by state lawmakers and headed to Gov. Mike DeWine. Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:09:27 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410453?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410453 Counsel for former New York state government official Linda Sun told a Brooklyn federal jury Wednesday that prosecutors overreached by accusing her of acting as an undisclosed agent for the People's Republic of China, saying the former aide was just doing her job as the go-between linking two Empire State governors and the Chinese-American community.  Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:29:23 +0000 /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410233?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /real-estate-authority/residential/articles/2410233 The Second Circuit affirmed a lower court's dismissal of a New York City landlord's lawsuit accusing Airbnb Inc. of enabling illegal short-term rentals and costing it more than $100,000 in city fines, finding the property owner failed to meet a deadline to respond to a magistrate judge's report and recommendation.