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Editor: David Reiss
Cornell Law School

April 3, 2017

Monday’s Adjudication Roundup

By Jamila Moore

The J.A. Green Development Corp. is dissatisfied with the services provided by their previous legal and accounting team. The real estate development company sued both their legal and accounting teams due to alleged misguidance regarding their prior tax practices. Trump … Continue reading

March 31, 2017

Friday’s Government Reports Roundup

By Robert Engelke

Jordan Rappaport of the Federal Reserve of Kansas City in a paper titled Crowdedness, Centralized Employment, and Multifamily Home Construction,  identifies several characteristics that account for a large share of the variation in multifamily construction across metropolitan areas during 2013-15. … Continue reading

March 30, 2017

Thursday’s Advocacy & Think Tank Roundup

By Robert Engelke

Could the post-Great Recession drop in housing demand have been driven in part by an increase in mortgage credit spreads across borrowers? In a new Joint Center working paper that uses proprietary data on the spread of mortgage rates across … Continue reading

March 29, 2017

Wednesday’s Academic Roundup

By Robert Engelke

This paper, titled Economic Policy and Systemic Risk: The Un-Constitutionality of Rent Control/Rent-Stabilization Statutes; Multiple Listing Systems; and the Licensing of ‘Real Estate Websites’, discusses how Multiple Listing Systems (MLS), Real Estate Website Laws (REWL), and Rent-Control and Rent-Stabilization statutes (RC-RS) … Continue reading

March 28, 2017

Tuesday’s Regulatory & Legislative Roundup

By Robert Engelke

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday proposed a rule change that would give mortgage lenders more flexibility in collecting information about the ethnicity and race of potential borrowers, potentially making it easier for lenders to comply with a key … Continue reading

March 27, 2017

Monday’s Adjudication Roundup

By Robert Engelke

A group of investors can’t revive a lawsuit accusing two companies of hiding costs from a real estate investment marketed as a way to avoid capital gains taxes, a California state appeals court ruled Thursday, ruling the claims were brought … Continue reading

March 24, 2017

Friday’s Government Reports Roundup

By Jamila Moore

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released its new guidelines for the Section 108 loan of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program. The CDBG is a grant that provides financial resourcexs for large-scale real … Continue reading