
Real Estate Companies Scrub DEI From Public Filings
Many real estate companies that previously disclosed their efforts to further diversity, equity and inclusion have avoided any mention of the topic in their latest financial disclosures, as the political winds have shifted against such initiatives.

Real Estate Takes On Heightened Focus Under Trump's CFIUS
President Donald Trump's initial policy directives show that real estate will be a bigger focal point for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, and even more corporate transactions across various industries could start to fall under the committee's microscope.

Manufactured Housing Nonprofit CEO Talks Co-op Models
ROC USA Chief Executive Emily Thaden spoke with Law360 Real Estate Authority about manufactured housing communities that are buying out owners and adopting cooperative models of resident ownership rather than paying steep rent on the land underneath their homes.
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A Maryland federal judge mostly sided with a landlord that was hit with a nurse practitioner's $1 million suit, which alleged that the landlord wrongfully locked her out of her place of business when she wasn'... (more story)
The California Department of Insurance on Friday provisionally approved State Farm's request for an emergency rate hike following the Los Angeles fires, including a nearly 22% increase for homeowners, saying f... (more story)

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A California tribe at the crux of an Interior Department decision to take 221 acres of trust land for the construction of its casino development wants to intervene in a challenge to the order, saying it and th... (more story)
Avon's international unit asked a bankruptcy judge to extend the window during which only it can propose a Chapter 11 plan, consulting firm Azzur Group Holdings asked the Delaware bankruptcy court to approve i... (more story)
Related Ross has started construction on two Class AA commercial office towers that will take up almost 1 million square feet combined in downtown West Palm Beach, Florida, the developer announced.
Hogan Lovells, Reed Smith and Paul Weiss guided Franklin BSP Realty Trust's $425 million acquisition of commercial real estate finance company NewPoint Holdings JV LLC, boosting the REIT's multifamily loan offerings.
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A D.C. federal judge on Friday upheld a $612.4 million jury verdict against the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ruling that the jury was provided with "ample evidence" that reasonab... (more story)
The Fourth Circuit on Friday seemed poised to upend a lower court ruling siding with a gated community in a discriminatory housing suit brought by the developer of a proposed assisted living facility, with one... (more story)

Large-acreage land transactions and institutional investors drove much of the activity in Florida's land market in 2024, with agricultural land transforming into residential, solar or other development as the ... (more story)
Atlanta-based U.S. homebuilder PulteGroup paid its general counsel more than $3 million in total compensation in 2024, marking a 13% increase from his 2023 total compensation as the company raked in a record $... (more story)
A Montana landowner told a federal judge that a U.S. Forest Service official launched a retaliatory criminal investigation after the managers of a ranch complained about public parking on an access road near t... (more story)
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Mallinckrodt PLC and Endo Inc. combine, Rocket Cos. buys Redfin, and Endo divests its international pharmaceuticals business to Knight Therapeutics Inc.
A Brooklyn federal judge sentenced a podcaster and purported cryptocurrency guru to 45 months in prison after he pled guilty to scamming investors out of more than $2 million using fictitious businesses, inclu... (more story)