Legal & Regulatory

The bill itself does not provide guidance on how landlords should renegotiate lease terms.

Rodriguez's ex-brother-in-law alleges the former baseball star squeezed him out of profits in their real estate partnership, while Rodriguez counters it's Scurtis who took unauthorized funds from the joint venture.

Rulings in recent cases allow rent to go unpaid.

The landlords argue that the order violated their contract and due process rights and amounted to an improper taking of their property under the US Constitution.

These potential risks may not be covered by current property insurance, says Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr's Louis P. Archambault

Most of the time a guarantee is not a provision of a lease agreement but rather an independent instrument, says Warshaw Burstein's Maxwell Breed.

A carve-out for vacant properties lets investors avoid the "substantially improve" requirement, to save millions in development fees.

This article highlights two recent appellate cases where the injured plaintiffs were denied summary judgment for liability against the defendants as a direct result of their own conduct.