Redlining Isn’t What it Used To Be
Discrimination and Bias in Residential Lending
Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Foreclosing on “Zombie” Mortgages: What Lenders and Servicers Should Know
Life After Love Gone Wrong Podcast: Season 3, Episode 2 - Mortgage Mastery: Charting a Financial Course Post-Divorce
Law Brief®: Robert Wolf, Alexander Tiktin and Richard Schoenstein Discuss the Continuing Foreclosure/Eviction Moratorium
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 146: Listen and Learn -- Mortgages and Priority
Credit Eco to Go Podcast - Not a Normal Mortgage Crisis: How the Mortgage Industry Weathered the Pandemic
Not a Normal Mortgage Crisis: How the Mortgage Industry Weathered the Pandemic
In The Cross-Hairs? Protecting Your Company Against Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Investigations and Investors' Mortgage Buyback Claims
Condo Adviser: What is 'FHA approved,' exactly?
Bill on Bankruptcy: Trustees Sleep Easy after High Court Ruling
Bill on Bankruptcy: Sigmund Freud, Marx Brothers, Bernie Madoff
Critical Mortgage Regulatory Updates by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for 2013 and 2014
Bill on Bankruptcy: Delaware to Continue Dominating Bankruptcy
What’s Next from the CFPB
Former Congressman Steve Bartlett Joins the LEVICK Team
Dans le marché fort dynamique de l’immobilier commercial actuel, il est essentiel de faire preuve de créativité pour faire avancer certaines opérations. L’une des stratégies de plus en plus utilisées est le recours à des...more
Creative dealmaking is essential to keep transactions moving in today’s dynamic commercial real estate market. One increasingly popular strategy is the use of vendor take-back mortgages or VTBs. A VTB is a financing...more
Today on “Terra Firma: Conversations on Commercial Real Estate,” hosts Stacey C. Tyler and Stephen Tanico chat with Naheem Harris, investor and real estate lawyer, about what he is seeing in the current real estate market,...more
In our latest roundup, mortgage rates drop to lowest levels since March, hotel construction activity highest since February 2023, Biden administration calls for legislation regarding property owners, and more!...more
In our latest roundup, summer travelers seek alternative lodging options, purpose-built wellness real estate investments grow, bonds backed by CRE debt hit are hit with losses, and more!...more
Corporate structures in commercial real estate transactions can often be very complex and involve layers of entities. Special purpose entities that are bankruptcy remote (“SPEs”) are frequently used in commercial real estate...more
Although the overall economy is improving, the real estate sector continues to confront serious challenges. More than $2.2 trillion in commercial real estate debt is expected to mature before the end of 20271, and much of it...more
“Build affordable housing.” Easier said than done. Build it where? Which surplus city properties would be good candidates for this kind of project? What types of policies do a better job of fostering housing development?...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about significant changes in work dynamics, leading to a rise in vacant office buildings across the United States. Remote work arrangements and the adoption of flexible work models have...more
Lenders, investors, and mortgage servicers will have a more favorable and standardized framework for protecting their interests in distressed debt when applying for appointments of commercial receivers beginning July 1, 2023,...more
The U.S. commercial real estate market, valued at $20 trillion in 2021 by some estimates, touches nearly every facet of urban and suburban dwellers’ lives – from where they live (multi-family housing or apartment buildings)...more
Cybersecurity becomes an increasing concern when buying digital land, a significant property tax break in New York is set to expire, climate disclosure mandates in commercial real estate are on the horizon, and more....more
Construction defects emerge in pandemic-era buildings, investor confidence is improving in China’s real estate market, the proptech field continues to show significant signs of growth, and more....more
Broker 2.0: $1.5B investment into PropTech by big firms is changing how they operate - Bisnow – October 27 - Global venture capital investment in PropTech exceeded $61.1 billion since 2010, according to investment...more
Real estate tech is bouncing back from its pandemic slump - PitchBook – June 28 - Over 2020, global VC deal flow into commercial real estate technologies fell nearly 80% compared with 2019. Meanwhile, venture...more
Hospitality debtors with substantial equity but prolonged depressed revenues due to COVID-19 may find negative amortization, a tool used sparingly pre-pandemic, helpful in the restructuring of mortgage debt under a chapter 11...more
The Commercial Mortgage Market Since the Covid-19 Pandemic - The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption to many facets of what was once everyday life. As Americans sheltered in place, brick-and-mortar retail shopping and...more
Folks, last week I made the point that it’s extremely important to confront negative narratives about our industry before they take hold, creep into the interstices between things that are true and then somehow ossified into...more
Until July 1, 2020, there was no comprehensive statutory scheme for the appointment receivers of commercial real estate in Florida. Instead, receiverships of commercial real estate had been governed only by a patchwork of...more
The Federal Reserve continues to roll out multiple measures to strengthen the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many of these measures are intended to buffer the housing market, which is affected by broader macroeconomic...more
We seem all atwitter about the notion that a recession is about to happen; almost aroused by the prospect. A NASCAR crowd just waiting for a crash? Or is this a Waiting for Godot thing, as the chattering class bloviates...more
With apologies to Madeline Kahn, in this case, it indeed is twu, it’s twu! The CRE CLO technology is maturing and evolving into the stable, match term, non-recourse, non-marked to market, dynamic portfolio lender lever...more
The First Regular Session of the 2019 Arizona Legislature produced a number of bills affecting commercial real estate and lending that were ultimately approved by the Governor. The text of, and fact sheets and other documents...more
Contagion, at least of the buggy sort, can make for a terrific, spooky movie. Remember Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon in Contagion? (Spoiler alert – she dies early on.) Got to admit, I love The Stand and Captain Trips; we all...more
KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER GREEK LAW - 1. PROCEDURE – MAIN STEPS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITION UNDER GREEK LAW. Acquisition of real estate property in Greece includes mainly the following steps: •...more