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Yellowstone Injunction Denied for Failure to Move on Time

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While Economy Recovers, Commercial Real Estate May Be Due for a Correction

Beau Jones

Before investors get too carried away by the news of recovery in commercial real estate, they should pause to ask themselves, "what are we recovering from?"

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Co-ops and Condominiums

NYRE Staff

Residential Owners Have Claim for Inadequate Quality of Hotel Unit

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Migrating Businesses Help Grow South Florida CRE Market Despite, and Because of, the Pandemic

Melea VanOstrand

The South Florida office market has seen a shift due to COVID, with some downsizing and modifications of office buildings, but the influx of new potential tenants has helped mitigate any potential downsides other markets may have seen.

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Federal Class Action Available for Delay In Recording Mortgage Satisfaction

By Jonathan Robbin

Because the Second Circuit held that a bare violation of New York's Mortgage-Satisfaction-Recording Statutes without a demonstration of actual injury conferred federal jurisdiction, a mortgagor now has the ability to bring a class action in federal court.

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NYRE Staff

Tenant Did Not Establish Fraud to Warrant Application of DHCR's Default Formula Four-Year Lookback Rule Applied to Rent Determinations But Not to Determination of Rent-Stabilized Status Tenant's Impossibility and Frustration of Purpose Defenses Rejected Tenant's Frustration of Purpose Claim Survives Neutral Appraiser Entitled to Examine Previous Appraisals

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Say it Ain't So! Tortious Interference with a Sublease By a Master Landlord Image

Say it Ain't So! Tortious Interference with a Sublease By a Master Landlord

Marisa L. Byram & Tyler V. Friederich 

A South Carolina appellate court recently affirmed a trial court's decision that a landlord had tortiously interfered with a sublease by terminating the master lease after a fire damaged the subject building and such landlord was liable to the subtenant for punitive damages.

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NYRE Staff

Exclusion for Zoning Regulations Bars Title Insurance Claim Transfer of Residential Properties Not a Fraudulent Transfer Property Owner on Constructive Notice of City's Relocation Lien Fraudulent Transfer Finding Upheld

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Second Circuit Expands Federal Class Actions for Mortgagors

By Jonathan Robbin

The Second Circuit recently held that a bare violation of mortgage satisfaction recording statutes without a demonstration of actual injury conferred federal jurisdiction, meaning that a mortgagor now has the ability to bring a class action in federal court. Thus, statutes designed to be merely remedial in nature can now be used punitively against lenders and servicers.

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NYRE Staff

Summary Judgment Premature on Discrimination Claim Defect In Recording Insufficient to Defeat Mortgage Priority

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