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May 27, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB's appellate and trial court wins in a foreclosure case surrounding a lost $751,000 mortgage note, finding officials at a mortgage servicing firm submitted deficient and contradictory affidavits to support the bank's right to collect money.
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May 27, 2026
Florida lawmakers would phase out property taxes on primary residences under a ballot measure up for consideration next week in a special session called Wednesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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May 27, 2026
A tax would be imposed on high-value second homes in New York City under a budget bill passed Wednesday by New York state lawmakers that would also decouple the state and city tax codes from certain federal tax breaks for businesses.
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May 27, 2026
Goulston & Storrs and Fried Frank are among the law firms that picked up work on the largest New York City real estate deals that hit public records last week, with a foreign investor deal topping the list.
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May 27, 2026
An insurer and a Minnesota apartment complex owner each urged a federal judge to decide a business interruption coverage dispute in their favor over lost rental income from vacated units in the wake of a fire that destroyed a gym and other resident facilities.
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May 27, 2026
The National Fair Housing Alliance sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday to overturn the agency's recent rollback of its fair lending regulations, challenging it as an unjustified, unlawful dismantling of protections against credit discrimination.
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May 27, 2026
A company using private equity funding to buy and preserve affordable housing in high-cost markets said Wednesday that it has partnered with a Seattle-based wealth management firm on a joint venture to own a group of four multifamily assets.
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May 26, 2026
New York borrowers have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to again revive their claims for millions in mortgage escrow interest from Bank of America, arguing the Second Circuit's recent decision to free the bank for a second time still gets federal banking preemption wrong.
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May 26, 2026
A California man and a real estate company told a Texas federal judge that a Houston-based law firm improperly distributed money meant to pay off a loan to criminal elements, saying Tuesday that the law firm owes $1.3 million.
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May 26, 2026
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday said the city would spend $22 billion over the next five years as part of a policy proposal to build 200,000 new affordable homes and preserve 200,000 more affordable units over a 10-year period.
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May 26, 2026
An Illinois federal judge temporarily restored Zillow's access to some 40,000 Chicago-area home listings that the company argued were wrongly withheld by Compass and a multiple listing service after the platform sought to enforce a ban on posts broadcast first on the private market.
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May 26, 2026
Developers are having to think twice about their construction budgets as tariffs continue to create pricing uncertainty 13 months after President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" Rose Garden speech, one of Sheppard's real estate leaders told Law360 Real Estate Authority.
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May 22, 2026
This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.
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May 22, 2026
A split Texas Supreme Court on Friday found that each debtor of a $400 million judgment is subject to the state's bond cap, finding a joint $25 million bond by a group of three real estate defendants insufficient in their bid to pause collection efforts while they appeal a wrongful-death suit judgment.
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May 22, 2026
The Fifth Circuit has remanded a real estate developer's antitrust claims over a Texas city's alleged illegal restraint on retail water utility services, saying a lower court did not give the appeals court a "sound basis" to examine the claims.
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May 22, 2026
A U.K. aviation services company's subsidiary that's seeking compensation for the more than $7.6 million arbitral award that it won by default against the Republic of Niger told a New York federal court that the African country's $35 million New York City property isn't exempt from being used to satisfy the award.
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May 22, 2026
A multiple listing service said Friday that Zillow is risking the loss of 40,000 home listings over its effort to exclude nine privately circulated posts, as the company seeks to enforce a ban on private home listings with a temporary injunction and antitrust lawsuit.
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May 22, 2026
A lot can happen in the world of mergers and acquisitions and equity fundraising over the course of a couple of weeks, and it's difficult to keep up with all the deals.
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May 22, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Equity Residential and AvalonBay Communities Inc. combine, investment firms CVC and Groupe Bruxelles Lambert lead a group of investors to buy pharmaceuticals company Recordati SpA, and NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy merge.
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May 22, 2026
Municipalities in three South Carolina counties will be authorized to impose sales taxes of up to 1% to provide property tax relief, with local voter approval, under legislation signed by the governor.
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May 22, 2026
A West Michigan man has asked a Michigan federal judge to deny the Charter Township of Trowbridge's motion to dismiss his suit alleging the township demolished a historic church he owned and was in the midst of rehabbing.
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May 21, 2026
The Office of the New York State Attorney General announced that it has shut down what it called a "predatory" law firm that allegedly targeted and exploited New York City tenants who were at risk of being evicted from their homes.
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May 21, 2026
A former Washington state apartment renter has accused collections agency IQ Data International Inc. of trying to extract money from tenants after they move out for debts they do not owe, according to a proposed class action the company removed to Seattle federal court on Wednesday.
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May 21, 2026
Erez Asset Management pressed fellow stockholders on Thursday to withhold support from an independent director of UMH Properties, a manufactured-housing real estate investment trust, arguing the REIT board's resistance to change has led to mediocre shareholder returns.
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May 21, 2026
A former Atlanta Housing Authority executive was sentenced to nine months in prison and nine months of home detention, to be served as part of her two-year term of supervised release, for carrying out a scheme to collect fraudulent housing assistance payments under Section 8 and pandemic relief funds.