
Hotel Sector Gauges Headwinds As Busy Season Begins
As we approach the midpoint of 2025 and the start of the summer travel season, hotel owners, operators and investors are closely watching international travel, the president's trade policies and the Federal Reserve.

States Take Aim At Healthcare REITs
State lawmakers seeking to curb healthcare investment models they see as harmful to patients have sharpened their focus on real estate investment trusts, putting forth bills to restrict their ownership of healthcare real estate or increase oversight of such transactions.

What's Behind The Surge In Real Estate Secondaries Market
More and more investors are selling off their stakes in real estate funds to hungry buyers on the secondary market, a trend that attorneys attribute to more than just a need for cash.
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A dispute among insurers over when a Texas shopping center was damaged in a hailstorm has left the center short of full coverage for a $7.3 million loss, and the owner wants a federal court to ensure that the ... (more story)
The Interior Department is looking to dismiss a challenge to its decision to take 70 acres into trust for a proposed tribal hotel and casino project in Sonoma County, California, telling a federal court that t... (more story)

In this weekly Q&A series from Law360 Real Estate Authority, law firm hospitality leaders assess the issues the hotel space is facing amid market uncertainty and the ongoing trade war.
Hunton Andrews and Keusch Law are among the firms that guided the largest New York City real estate deals that hit public records last week, with a nine-figure Manhattan matter leading the way.
Blackstone has acquired a $1.4 billion, 46% stake in Fisher Brothers' 1345 Avenue of the Americas tower in a transaction advised by Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Paul Hastings LLP and Dechert LLP.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to consider claims that federal agencies failed to complete a full environmental review of plans to construct the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago's Jackson Park neighborhood.
A California federal judge tossed the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit Friday alleging LA Fitness did not accommodate disabled patrons, ruling the government failed to allege a pattern or practice of discr... (more story)
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The Michigan Supreme Court will consider an appeal application from a woman who argues that a property management company and a concrete contractor are liable for her injuries from tripping over a trench in th... (more story)
Tampa, Florida-based residential insurer Slide Insurance announced the launch of its initial public offering on Monday, with attorneys from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, Greenberg Traurig LLP and Davi... (more story)

McGuireWoods LLP advised financing secured by a 2.1 million-square-foot affordable housing portfolio in the Bronx that was acquired last month by Longacre Group from Related Fund Management.
Integra Investments has begun work on a more than $100 million, seven-story multifamily and workforce housing project in North Miami, the real estate investment and development firm announced Friday.
Tenants at a Denver apartment complex have filed a proposed class action against the owner as well as current and former property managers in state court, alleging the property became dangerous and unsanitary ... (more story)
A 7-year-old federal lawsuit between a Colorado condominium complex and its insurer alleging nearly $25 million in unpaid claims has ended in a private settlement.
A Georgia partnership that formed after the failure of a resort development and donated a conservation easement in exchange for a tax break cannot take an $8.9 million deduction for the property's fair market ... (more story)