Office-to-Apartment Conversions – A Good Idea, but Tricky to Pull Off (Audio)
Welcome to the trendy revolution of urban farming. Three years ago, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a plan to transform vacant office buildings in downtown DC into residential properties with hopes of creating a...more
Last year, in V.I.T. Estates Ltd. v New Westminster (City), 2023 BCCA 183, the British Columbia Court of Appeal (BCCA) dismissed a challenge to a municipal bylaw that restricted zoning to residential rentals. The court found...more
Following up on recent PSH Land Use Client Alerts on June 26, 2023 and August 22, 2023, an important collection of bills were passed through both houses of the Rhode Island state legislature in June and signed into law. ...more
As work habits continue to transition from office space to work from home, sparsely populated downtown office towers are proving to be a barrier to the City’s goal of repopulating the traditional financial district. Enter the...more
During her State of the State address last week Governor Kathy Hochul announced a strategy to build 800,000 new homes across New York over the next decade. The strategy, known as the New York Housing Compact, includes...more
KEY FACTS OF REAL ESTATE ACQUISITIONS UNDER LATVIAN LAW - 1. Types of real estate - 1.1. Land estate - Consists of one or several land plots. 1.2. Land and building estate - Consists of one or several land...more