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Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

MHH Condo/Co-op Digest, (February 2025)

This newsletter explores the emerging legal topics and issues affecting the condominium and cooperative services industry. Thought-leading attorneys from Moritt Hock & Hamroff’s Condominium and Cooperative Services Practice...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Understanding Local Law 97 (LL 97): Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

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What is LL 97? - New York City’s LL 97 is part of a package of laws referred to as the Climate Mobilization Act, intended to be New York City’s own “Green New Deal.” At its core, LL 97 caps the amount of greenhouse gas...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Make No Mistake – Rent Control Laws Apply To Single-Family Homes

A recent California Appellate Court decision provided tenants with additional protections when it clarified that local rent control laws applied to a single-family home in which the landlord rented rooms in the home to...more

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

An Additional Barrier in Performing TAMA 38 Projects

The Real Estate Law (Reinforcement of Condominiums against Earthquakes) 5768-2008 (the “Reinforcement Law”) provides that in order to perform a TAMA 38 plan on a building under the “demolish and build” track, a majority of...more

Snell & Wilmer

Utah Still Thinks Privity of Contract is Important

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In recent years, a few law firms have made a cottage industry of enticing condominium home owners associations to sue the project developers over many issues, very often for alleged construction defects. Numerous homeowners’...more

Holland & Knight LLP

California "In Lieu" Affordable Housing Fees Withstand Constitutional Challenge - U.S. Supreme Court Denies Petition to Review...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 30, 2017, denied a petition for certiorari filed by the developers of an 11-unit residential condominium project in the City of West Hollywood seeking to challenge the application by the City of...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Can Zoning Stop Property Owners from Renting?

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Local governments may not rely on zoning rules to prohibit renters in multi-family housing developments. Many local governments (and residents) prefer property owners living in their communities rather than tenants. This...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Alert - City Increases Park/Quimby Fees for ALL Future Residential Buildings

As some of you are aware, the City Planning Department along with Parks and Recs have been pushing to increase the Quimby fees (Parks fees for new condo/for sale units) as well as to create new Park Fees for newly constructed...more

Snell & Wilmer

Examining Denver’s new construction defect reform ordinance

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Construction defect reform is a hot-button issue in Colorado. This is especially true along the booming Front Range, where rapidly increasing population has driven the prices of renting and buying property a mile high....more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

City of Lakewood Adopts Ordinance to Encourage Condominium Construction and Reduce Construction Defect Litigation

On Monday, October 13, 2014, the City of Lakewood became the first Colorado municipality to adopt legislation intended to encourage construction of “for sale” multifamily projects by mitigating the risks to developers and...more

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