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Your Next Real Estate Deal Could Require CFIUS Approval

CFIUS Review Might Apply to Your Real Estate Deal - Most real estate professionals do not expect to seek approval from the president of the United States before closing a real estate deal. However, the U.S. Treasury...more

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The Double Default Rule in Real Estate Transactions

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"We're ready, willing and able to close. Are you?" These are familiar words to those who buy and sell real estate. They embody the notion that, on the time appointed for the closing of the transaction, a party is ready to...more

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[Webinar] Corporate Transparency Act's Impact on Real Estate: Reporting Companies; Exemptions; Beneficial Ownership Reporting -...

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This CLE webinar will examine the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), effective Jan. 1, 2024, and its impact on real estate entities and transactions, including who is considered a "reporting company" subject to new beneficial...more

DarrowEverett LLP

Allocating Risk in Real Estate Sales: Representations and Warranties

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Although a majority of buyers in real estate transactions rely on their own inspections of property, most real estate purchase and sale agreements contain some seller representations and warranties regarding key factual...more

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European Distressed Real Estate - How Will It Play Out This Time?

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BCLP’s Pan-European Real Estate team hosted a round-table event on 27 February 2024 with several Managing Directors at Alvarez & Marsal to discuss the European commercial real estate market, including the latest developments...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

FinCEN Proposes AML Compliance Obligations for Non-Financed Real Estate Transactions

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Following consideration of comments received from an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, on February 16, 2024, FinCEN issued a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) that for the first time would require non-financed...more

Falcon Rappaport & Berkman LLP

FinCEN’s Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transfers

To crack down on money-laundering in the U.S. residential real estate market, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) has proposed new reporting requirements for certain real estate transactions. Specifically, the...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

U.S. Treasury Issues Notice of Anti-Money Laundering Regulations for Residential Real Estate Transfers

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On Feb. 7, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)1 in response to illicit finance risks identified in the U.S. residential real estate...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Who Owns and Controls Your Real Estate Entity? FinCEN Wants to Know, and its Final Rule is now in Effect

This client alert is an update to an earlier MoFo client alert issued on December 8, 2022. In a final rule implementing the Corporate Transparency Act (the “Final Rule”), the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”)...more

DarrowEverett LLP

How Bonus Depreciation Can Be A Timely Tool in Real Estate Deals

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So, you’re a real estate investor accustomed to tax mitigation strategies and you are starting to think about your next big project. With that comes so many streams of thought — location, timing, interest rates, partnerships,...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

NY’s LLC Transparency Act and NYC Real Estate – Albany Wants to Know the Secrets that You Keep[i]

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A national study released in 2015 reported that “nearly half the residential purchases of over $5 million were made by shell companies rather than named people.”[ii] Because shell companies could often be formed without...more

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Data Center Investment Opportunities

Due to the rapidly increasing amount of data generated and consumed on the internet, an opportunity exists for commercial real estate investors, lenders, developers, green energy providers and others to develop data center...more

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What Florida’s SB 264 Means for Foreign Ownership of Real Property

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This past July, Florida became the latest state to adopt legislation with the goal of restricting foreign governments and individuals from real property ownership. Florida’s controversial new bill, SB 264, Interests of...more

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Goodwin REIT Alert: Trends in REIT M&A (2022-2023)

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In our 2022 alert “REIT M&A Trends Through the Pandemic,” we cataloged a total of 42 new REIT transactions announced between August 2020 and May 2022, a pace that rivaled or exceeded pre-pandemic levels. From May 2022 through...more

Woods Rogers

Following the Government’s Playbook: Tax Incentives for CRE Investments 

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Investing in commercial real estate can offer various tax incentives that can help investors reduce their tax liability and enhance the overall profitability of their investments. Below is a non-exhaustive summary of key tax...more

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A Powerful Strategy Every Transitioning Real Estate Investor Should Know About During a Challenging Real Estate Market

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Using a Delaware Statutory Trust Investment to Defer Tax In a Like Kind Exchange - The headwinds in the domestic real estate market have raised the profile of a relatively unknown but powerful investment strategy: exchanging...more

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Public takeovers in the UK real estate sector

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BCLP has analysed all of the completed and ongoing public takeover transactions in the UK real estate sector since the beginning of 2019. Deal activity during that period has been consistently strong, with 15 completed...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

CFIUS Expands Jurisdiction Over—and States Restrict Chinese Investment in—Real Estate

On May 5, 2023, the Department of the Treasury issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to add eight military installations to the list of sites around which CFIUS has jurisdiction to review real estate transactions. This is...more

White & Case LLP

European Real Estate Finance: Market Update – Q2 2023

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The past six months have seen difficult economic times in much of Europe, with governments and central banks seeking to respond to both the increases in costs of living and the need to curb inflation. Notwithstanding the...more

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Global real estate and ESG: How the EU, UK and US are responding to the climate crisis

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With governments across the globe warning that action is urgently needed to diminish global warming and address the climate crisis, we look at the response of the EU, UK and US, with a focus on real estate. Climate damage is...more

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ESG: The global energy crisis: a cross-border comparison

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The International Energy Agency has said the world faces its first “truly global energy crisis” as a result of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent restriction of supply of Russian gas. Here is how the UK, Germany,...more

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UK REIT Reorganisations for Real Estate Funds - Six Key Factors for Success

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As more real estate funds look to reorganise UK assets into REIT holding structures, we share our experience on what makes a smooth transition. The UK real estate investment trust (REIT) is experiencing a revival. Recent...more

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CFIUS Says Chinese Investment in North Dakota Agricultural Land Is Outside Its Jurisdiction

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Fufeng USA Inc. (Fufeng USA), a subsidiary of Chinese food manufacturer Fufeng Group Ltd. (Fufeng Group), announced on Dec. 13, 2022, that after an "extensive two-phase review," the Committee on Foreign Investment in the...more

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Greening Real Estate - understanding the Green Premium in Corporate Real Estate M&A - Energy Efficiency Series - Part 2

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In the first part of our series on Energy Efficiency, we looked at the backdrop and the various factors at play in relation to the target of achieving net-zero by 2050. In this article, we will explore how that backdrop is...more

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Greening Real Estate - Where are we now? - Energy Efficiency Series - Part 1

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Against the ambitious backdrop set by the Paris Climate Agreement to reach net-0 by 2050, there is a clear drive by corporations to move forward on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) or sustainability...more

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