Litigation attorney Anne Beehler and real estate attorney Andrew Starrels co-authored a Law360 article examining the Commercial Tenant Protection Act (S.B. 1103) in California that grants new rights to qualified commercial...more
4/24/2025
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Small Business ,
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Recent legislative changes impose new requirements for owners of California commercial properties, at least with respect to certain specified types of tenants. Effective Jan. 1, 2025, the Commercial Tenant Protection Act,...more
1/6/2025
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Commercial Property Owners ,
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Micro Entity Status ,
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Sole Proprietorship
A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Aug. 25, 2021, upheld the City of Los Angeles' current residential eviction moratorium – first enacted by the City Council in 2020 as an emergency...more
8/31/2021
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Appeals ,
City of Los Angeles ,
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Contract Terms ,
Contracts Clause ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Eviction ,
Landlords ,
Local Ordinance ,
Mayor Garcetti ,
Moratorium ,
Private Right of Action ,
Relief Measures ,
Rental Property ,
Residential Leases ,
Trade Associations ,
Unlawful Detainer
As California's housing supply and homelessness crisis continues to worsen, the state Legislature has for the past several years passed numerous pieces of housing legislation in each legislative session. ...more
9/23/2020
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Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Forbearance Agreements ,
Housing Market ,
Landlords ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Mortgages ,
Real Estate Development ,
Residential Leases ,
State and Local Government ,
Tenants ,
Urban Planning & Development
There is an interplay between local efforts such as the new City of Los Angeles residential eviction moratorium ordinance (see Part 1 of this Breaking Ground Blog series, "City of L.A.'s New Ordinance Foretells More Trouble...more
Unlike many other urban areas, most apartment tenancies in Los Angeles last only a year on average before a tenant moves on, and if a tenant leaves with outstanding amounts unpaid, the landlord must decide whether to pursue...more
The Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance on May 6, 2020, that dramatically expands the City's eviction moratorium in unprecedented ways. Several weeks ago, the City had instituted prohibitions on evictions of both...more
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) took action on March 23, 2020, to address the impacts felt by some commercial real estate investors from the COVID-19 crisis. The FHFA announced that it will grant some leniency to...more
In Orozco v. WPV San Jose, LLC, California's Sixth District Court of Appeal upheld a decision by the Superior Court in Santa Clara County in support of a commercial tenant who sued his landlord for fraud. The tenant,...more
8/27/2019
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Defense Strategies ,
Disparate Impact ,
Fair Housing Act (FHA) ,
HUD ,
Landlords ,
Misrepresentation ,
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Property Tax ,
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Proposition 13 ,
Residential Property Owners ,
Shopping Centers ,
State and Local Government
After more than three years of fact-finding and amidst intense lobbying from many constituencies, the Los Angeles City Council passed an ordinance on Dec. 11, 2018, to permit and regulate short-term rentals within the City of...more