NRDC

MARCH 14, 2024

The North Carolina Real Estate Commission finalized the rule to require sellers to provide potential home buyers with information about flood history and risk before they buy a home, and it will go into effect July 1, 2024.

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Environment + Energy Leader

APRIL 1, 2022

The post Meet the 100: Dan Gavin, VP of National Real Estate, ALDI appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader. Here, Dan Gavin offers tips for professionals seeking to make their locations more environmentally friendly and explores upcoming challenges.

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SPR Law

MAY 17, 2024

The public can… The post Proposed Changes to Part 375 Remedial Program Regulations: Implications for Real Estate Developers and their Financing Institutions appeared first on Sive Paget Riesel.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JUNE 26, 2023

The BranchPattern report found that of 26 industrial U.S. core and shell buildings, the average embodied carbon intensity was about 50 pounds of carbon per square foot.

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Breezometer

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Perhaps the most popular words real estate professionals utter to potential buyers is “location, location, location.” In real estate, location is often a key factor in the selling process. Along with two environmental engineer friends, they decided to make air pollution visible and actionable in real-time.

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E2 Law Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Neumann , co-chairs of GT’s Environmental Practice , were interviewed for a Law360 Real Estate Authority article titled “Regulatory Whiplash In Real Estate Here To Stay, Attys Say.” Click here to read the full article, “ Regulatory Whiplash In Real Estate Here To Stay, Attys Say.” Barsh and Christopher J.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 7, 2023

As tensions mount on the placement of large-scale solar developments in the United States, real estate investment trusts (REITs) could help reduce solar developments’ environmental impacts and our nation’s power sector greenhouse gas emissions, all while improving REITs’ bottom line.

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Greenbuilding Law

JULY 23, 2023

In response, both voluntary and mandatory GHG emission disclosures in contracts have emerged worldwide, compelling a broad breadth of business sectors, particularly real estate, to integrate these considerations into their company practices and into their contract documents. businesses operate in leased space.

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E2 Law Blog

APRIL 26, 2023

as a shareholder in the Miami office, where he will be part of the firm’s Real Estate Practice and work closely with the Environmental and Land Use teams. Chibbaro has rejoined global law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A.

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Arnold Porter

JANUARY 17, 2023

Arnold & Porter announced today that Alex Hallett has joined the firm’s Real Estate practice as counsel. A former Arnold & Porter associate and senior attorney, Mr. Hallett’s practice focuses on all aspects of commercial leasing transactions.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

This guide identifies states with the strongest flood risk disclosure requirements and provides a selection of their laws and disclosure forms as … Continue reading Flood Risk Disclosure: Model State Requirements for Disclosing Flood Risk During Real Estate Transactions.

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Arnold Porter

JULY 15, 2021

Arnold & Porter announced today that Jonathan Boswell has joined the firm’s Real Estate practice as counsel, resident in Washington, DC. Mr. Boswell represents lenders and property owners, developers, operators and managers in a wide range of commercial real estate transactions.

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Arnold Porter

DECEMBER 10, 2021

On December 8, 2021, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published a notice as an initial step in addressing potential money laundering vulnerabilities associated with non-financed transactions in the US real estate market.[[N: N: Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Real Estate Transactions , 86 Fed.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The real estate industry, like others, is being summoned to accelerate its sustainability practices, especially as investors pay attention to potential impact of climate risks on asset value. Read the full story at Waste360.

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JANZEN AG

APRIL 19, 2022

However, companies searching for ways to sequester carbon in farmland are mostly choosing to bypass traditional real estate contracts and instead create new “soil carbon” contracts. As a result, transfers of interests in property often require timely and costly investments in surveys, title work, and real estate attorneys.

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Environment + Energy Leader

JANUARY 26, 2023

On a typical workday, I support my team in researching and implementing efficiency and decarbonization initiatives across our 17 million SF real estate portfolio. The post Meet the Honorees: Anita Jeerage, Director of Sustainability, Unico appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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The Energy Law Blog

APRIL 16, 2019

A Lender in a real estate financing transaction often requires borrower’s counsel to opine on certain aspects of the transaction as a condition to the closing. The first opinion report specifically addressing financing opinions in real estate transactions was the Real Estate Opinion Letter Guidelines published in 38 Real Prop.

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SPR Law

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The decision provides clarity to the NYC real estate community that Local Law 97 is valid, enforceable, and constitutional. On October 30, 2023, the New York Supreme Court, New York County dismissed a significant legal challenge to New York City’s building emissions law, Local Law 97 of 2019.

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Environment + Energy Leader

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Blackstone, which has stakes in more than 250 companies and 10,000 real estate holdings, will utilize Sphera’s platform to enhance its ability to measure progress against decarbonization efforts and strategically manage greenhouse gas emissions.

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JANZEN AG

MAY 7, 2021

But real property law—our system for describing, owning, and transferring interests in real estate—continues to exist in the legal dark ages. The outcome of a commercial dispute in a state that adopted the UCC became more predictable. Interests in land are typically recorded in local records.

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CEQA Developments

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law.

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Yale E360

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

When told about risks from flooding, prospective homebuyers were less likely to make offers on vulnerable properties, according to new research from the real estate brokerage company Redfin, which says that a growing awareness of climate risk could stunt home prices in flood-prone areas. Read more on E360 ?.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 10, 2024

By rubber-stamping an application to needlessly extend a settlement boundary and bulldoze farmland or wildlife habitat, a small town councilor could confer hundreds of millions in windfall wealth upon a real estate speculator who bought up farmland at a low price.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Read the full story at Climatewire. A new analysis finds that local governments in coastal states will lose billions of dollars in local tax revenue as rising seas claim developed land.

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Legal Planet

MAY 16, 2024

This opinion by Alito tossed that history out the window, leaving at least half the nation’s wetlands at the mercy of real estate developers and oil companies. For almost fifty years, the federal government used the Clean Water Act to protect wetlands that had some hydrological connection with significant rivers and lakes.

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Yale E360

AUGUST 27, 2021

counties that are most prone to weather disasters are seeing an influx of new residents, while those that are least vulnerable to extreme weather are seeing an exodus, according to a new analysis by the real estate firm Redfin. Despite the mounting risk of climate change, U.S. Read more on E360 ?.

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CEQA Developments

AUGUST 17, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for more than fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 4th, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Read the full story at GreenBiz. The Inflation Reduction Act is pushing to remove natural gas use in homes, but it’s mostly up to industry to advance electrification for commercial buildings.

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National Law Center

JULY 11, 2023

Recently, a group of Chinese citizens living in Florida and Multi-Choice Realty, a Florida-based real estate brokerage firm, have filed a lawsuit (Shen. The post Plaintiffs Challenging Florida’s Foreign Ownership Law Seek to Halt Enforcement appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Both the farming operation and the real estate operation are based in Bakersfield and are the legacy of the Bolthouse family. It’s true that Bolthouse sold off the farming operation to a private equity firm years ago. Bolthouse Properties is now the landowner that leases the land to Bolthouse Farms.

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Yale E360

JANUARY 25, 2022

With parts of Europe still recovering from last summer's devastating floods, the European Central Bank (ECB) is gauging how commercial lenders would cope if flood-prone real estate were to suddenly lose nearly half of its value. Read more on E360 ?.

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CEQA Developments

MARCH 28, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The

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National Law Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In May 2023, a group of Chinese citizens living in Florida and a real estate brokerage firm—whose clients are primarily Chinese. The post Federal Judge Decides Not to Halt Enforcement of Florida’s Foreign Ownership Law appeared first on National Agricultural Law Center.

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CEQA Developments

MAY 21, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The

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Environmental News Bits

APRIL 26, 2024

Real estate actors across the United States are at the precipice of a major climate opportunity. Download the report. The recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and the increased focus by investors, lenders, regulators, and policymakers on building decarbonization, positions the sector to take meaningful action.

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CEQA Developments

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Miller Starr Regalia has had a well-established reputation as a leading real estate law firm for fifty years. For nearly all that time, the firm also has written Miller & Starr, California Real Estate 3d, a 12-volume treatise on California real estate law. “The

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Environmental and Urban Economics

JULY 16, 2021

Spatially tied real estate prices will capitalize these amenity changes but in an economy featuring diverse consumers, these price changes will not capture the full distribution of lost consumer surplus. What is his next best alternative? He has lost non-market services that Mother Nature used to supply.

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