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May 18, 2026
A California federal judge has given final approval to a deal between Wells Fargo investors and executives in a derivative suit claiming the bank's leadership failed to address the company's discriminatory lending practices and engaged in "fake" interviews with diverse candidates, calling the assistance fund resulting from the settlement "significant."
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May 18, 2026
Northwest Multiple Listing Service has urged a Washington federal court to order real estate brokerage Compass to turn over "critical" discovery needed to defend against Compass' antitrust suit challenging its property listing policies.
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May 18, 2026
A former real estate professional was sentenced to 55 months in prison by a Washington federal judge on Friday, after being convicted for conning $2 million from investors that would purportedly go toward purchasing and renovating properties, but was actually used to buy, among other things, a customized Tesla and a diamond ring.
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May 18, 2026
Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP has hired a former Schwartz Sladkus Reich Greenberg Atlas LLP real estate partner for a partner role on the firm's condominium and cooperative services team in Midtown Manhattan, the firm announced Monday.
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May 18, 2026
Saul Ewing LLP said it has added a Baltimore-based attorney to its real estate and land use practices who will advise clients on government approvals for projects such as mixed-use, housing, commercial, industrial and energy developments.
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May 18, 2026
Minnesota would conform with several changes to the federal tax code and extend its workaround of the cap on corporate deductions for state and local taxes under an omnibus tax package approved by lawmakers and heading to Gov. Tim Walz.
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May 18, 2026
A State Farm unit said it is entitled to recoup costs paid in connection with a policyholder's house fire because the fire was caused by a defective electric range manufactured by General Electric Co., according to a suit removed to Washington federal court.
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May 18, 2026
Hanover Insurance Co. is not responsible for a Massachusetts property owner's inadequate coverage, an intermediate state appellate court said Monday, rejecting arguments that the insurer's familiarity with the home it had insured for nearly two decades created such a duty.
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May 18, 2026
Greenberg Traurig and Cleary Gottlieb are among the law firms that landed work on the largest New York City real estate deals that hit public records last week, with a pair of nine-figure Manhattan land trades topping the list.
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May 15, 2026
A jury awarded nearly $48 million Thursday to a real estate agency in a dispute over a broker commission from the sale of a waterfront property in a luxury enclave in northern Miami-Dade County.
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May 15, 2026
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency moved Friday to shield many of the nation's biggest banks from state requirements to pay interest on homeowner mortgage escrow accounts, finalizing a pair of rules that extend its push to bolster federal banking preemption.
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May 15, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge held that RealPage and most landlords accused of price-fixing must face the state attorney general's antitrust allegations because the complaint contends all but one landlord largely ceded individual pricing decisions to RealPage, according to a mixed decision unsealed Thursday that tossed some state claims.
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May 15, 2026
A North Carolina federal court declined to let employees alleging a property management company shortchanged them on overtime wages haul a recent order denying a bid for collective certification into the Fourth Circuit.
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May 15, 2026
Sherwin-Williams has been hit with proposed class claims in Pennsylvania federal court alleging noxious odors have been spewing out of one of its western Pennsylvania manufacturing plants, causing nuisance to nearby residents.
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May 15, 2026
An official from the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division warned that algorithmic pricing software could be subject to criminal enforcement if the companies using it know their nonpublic data is going to be used to set prices for competitors.
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May 15, 2026
A Miami real estate developer pled guilty Friday to leading a scheme raising $89 million from investors for real estate development projects throughout South Florida that were never built.
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May 15, 2026
A class of renters asked a Tennessee federal court to preliminarily approve more than $218 million worth of settlements that aim to resolve antitrust claims against a group of multifamily landlords accused of using property management software company RealPage Inc.'s technology for rent price-fixing.
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May 15, 2026
A Virginia federal judge has set an August trial date after shutting down a bid by Zillow and Redfin to escape a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accusing the companies of sealing a deal to stop competing on multifamily rental listings with a $100 million payment.
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May 15, 2026
The buyer of a Georgia Ford dealership hit its former owners with a federal fraud lawsuit alleging that it was hoodwinked into overpaying for the business thanks to the seller inflating his on-paper profits by including revenue from a side business selling homes.
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May 15, 2026
A Wichita homeowner is pushing back against a new bid to dismiss her proposed class action alleging Union Pacific Railroad Co. contaminated the groundwater by mishandling hazardous chemicals, saying the presence of those chemicals on her property is enough to allege an injury and standing.
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May 14, 2026
Policyholder advocates won a victory when a state court said litigators can cite a recent ruling about water damage claims.
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May 14, 2026
A Florida property management company will pay $60,000 to a U.S. Navy sailor to settle allegations by federal prosecutors that the company used a false affidavit to win an eviction that forced the sailor to live apart from his wife — at times on a Navy ship with no heat.
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May 14, 2026
Walker & Dunlop has arranged $130 million through a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development construction loan program for a developer's conversion of a former Veterans Affairs hospital campus in Denver to multifamily housing.
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May 14, 2026
A proposed class of homebuyers is opposing efforts by HomeServices of America Inc. and Douglas Elliman Inc. in Florida federal court to settle separate but similar antitrust class actions accusing brokerages of conspiring to inflate broker commission fees.
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May 14, 2026
A trust beneficiary is not eligible for a refund of a Washington, D.C., recordation tax that was paid when a property was transferred upon the dissolution of the trust, a district appellate court ruled Thursday.