Commercial Assets Feel Pinch of Climbing Interest Rates and Inflation
July 01, 2022
Inflation revs up the acceleration engine and, as a response, the Fed makes the biggest single hike in interest rates in four decades, with the promise of more to come. The changes in monetary policy are causing rising issues for capital markets and financing for commercial real estate.
Landlord & Tenant Law
June 01, 2022
Habitability and Harassment Claims Survive Motion to Dismiss
COVID-19 Does Not Trigger Frustration of Purpose or Impossibility Defenses
Tenant Entitled to Actual Damages for Landlord Breach, But Not to Suspension Payment
Renovations Qualified Apartment for High-Rent Vacancy Decontrol
COVID-19 Does Not Excuse Failure to Pay Rent
A Primer on Landlord Exculpatory Provisions In Leases
June 01, 2022
Keystone Specialty Services Co. v. Ebaugh
Practitioners should take note that depending on the jurisdiction, a well-drafted exculpatory clause may afford additional protections to a commercial landlord, even from its own negligent acts.
Supreme Court Addresses Municipal Sign Regulations, Again
June 01, 2022
In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court applied strict scrutiny to a sign regulation as it related to directional signs placed by a local congregation that held services at different locations each week. The Court took another look at the issue of strict scrutiny relating to "off-premises" signs in the case of City of Austin, Texas v. Reagan National Advertising , in which the majority concluded that strict scrutiny should not apply to determining whether the off-premises sign regulations at issue violated the First Amendment.
Commercial Real Estate Market Optimistic
June 01, 2022
The commercial real estate industry is having little trouble shrugging off today's challenging economic situations and its optimism is brewing with recent pandemic restrictions being lifted, according to a state of the market survey from DLA Piper.
Landlord & Tenant Law Case Update
June 01, 2022
COVID-19 Does Not Trigger Frustration of Purpose or Impossibility Defenses
Tenant Entitled to Actual Damages for Landlord Breach, But Not to Suspension Payment
COVID-19 Does Not Excuse Failure to Pay Rent
Options for Commercial Property Owners With Distressed Assets
May 01, 2022
Cyclical challenges in the economy are nothing new, and 2022 is shaping up to be that kind of year for business owners nationwide. This is likely to result in a greater need for the services of bankruptcy attorneys as business owners face a mounting wave of distressed financial assets.
Effects of Inflation on Commercial Real Estate
May 01, 2022
While growth of the job market and the economy are the most important factors affecting commercial real estate, the emergence of historic rising inflation has its effects as well.
