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Editor: David Reiss
Cornell Law School

September 9, 2026

Tokenized Residential Real Estate

By David Reiss

I am excited that Who Controls the Block? How States Can Regulate Tokenized Residential Real Estate (co-authored with Bizub & Peralta) is forthcoming in the Texas A&M Law Review. The abstract reads, In July 2025, the City of Detroit filed … Continue reading

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September 9, 2026 in REIT | Permalink | No Comments

August 7, 2026

Who Controls the Block? How States Can Regulate Tokenized Residential Real Estate

By David Reiss

I have posted Who Controls the Block? How States Can Regulate Tokenized Residential Real Estate to SSRN (with Bizub & Peralta). The abstract reads, In July 2025, the City of Detroit filed a major nuisance abatement action against RealT, a … Continue reading

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August 7, 2026 in REIT | Permalink | No Comments

September 22, 2023

The DAO of Real Estate

By David Reiss

Joseph Bizub and I posted The DAO of Real Estate to SSRN (and BePress). The abstract reads, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have long proven their worth as liquid securities that give investors access to many real estate asset classes. … Continue reading

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September 22, 2023 in REIT | Permalink | No Comments

September 26, 2022

How Fintech Cos. May Transform Real Estate Investment

By David Reiss

                I published How Fintech Cos. May Transform Real Estate Investment along with Joseph Bizub and Justin Peralta in Law360. It opens, Until relatively recently, real estate with a small footprint — one-to-four-family … Continue reading

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September 26, 2022 in REIT | Permalink | No Comments

January 23, 2018

Aggressive Retirement Investing in Real Estate Lending

By David Reiss

InsuranceNewsNet.com quoted me in Investors ‘Flocking In’ to Real Estate Lending. It reads, in part, The stock market is off to a roaring start in 2018, but there’s no shortage of investment gurus who warn that continued equities growth is far … Continue reading

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January 23, 2018 in REIT | Permalink | No Comments

October 26, 2016

High Times for New REIT

By David Reiss

Realtor.com quoted me in Could This Marijuana REIT Make Millions, or Are They Just High? It opens, Investing in real estate just got waaay more interesting, dudes! That’s because amid all that stuffy stock-market buzz, a wacky new REIT (real estate investment trust) … Continue reading

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October 26, 2016 in REIT | Permalink | No Comments

January 20, 2016

Wednesday’s Academic Roundup

By Shea Cunningham

Towards a New Eviction Jurisprudence, Gerald S. Dickinson, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law Policy, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2015. Managing Retirement Risks with Reverse Mortgage Loans and Long-Term Care Insurance, Adam Wenqiang Shao, Hua Chen & Michael Sherris, 7th Australasian … Continue reading

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January 20, 2016 in REIT | Permalink | No Comments