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Mark E. Ellinghouse
Real Estate Legal Updates
It has now been just over a month since multiple wildfires erupted throughout the Greater Los Angeles area, bringing widespread devastation to the highly populated area in an event that could end up being the costliest disaster in U.S. history. For Californians, it was yet another example of the growing…
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Alison E. Geddes
Real Estate Legal Updates
California law has long treated commercial and residential tenancies differently. Consumer protection-focused regulations enacted to protect residential tenants were legally considered inapplicable to business tenants which were considered to have a higher level of sophistication. This is all about to change in California. As we prepare to usher in 2025,…
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Mark E. Ellinghouse
Real Estate Legal Updates
Though Halloween has come and gone, a real-life scare continues to linger: the office sector of commercial real estate. Office has been the slowest sector to recover from COVID, as companies wrestle with remote/hybrid work policies in determining their future office needs. While some businesses have relinquished their office space…
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Alison E. Geddes
Real Estate Legal Updates
It is rare for the commercial real estate industry to be the target of legislative reform. Even for a progressive state like California, real estate-focused initiatives tend to focus on promoting housing policies, residential tenant rights, and environmental protections. This year, however, there are three pending bills which could significantly…
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Mark E. Ellinghouse
Real Estate Legal Updates
We’ve all read the headlines recently. From Big Lots to Joann’s to Express, many retailers which were staples of popular retail centers at the turn of the century have succumbed to the pressures of online shopping, higher interest rates and rising costs, and called it quits (or are significantly reorganizing…
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Mark E. Ellinghouse
Real Estate Legal Updates
The Downtown Sacramento Partnership (DSP) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) recently convened a Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) of distinguished third-party analysts from around the country to analyze and recommend growth opportunities for downtown Sacramento. The TAP’s recommendations were made public this month. As a member of ULI Sacramento’s Executive…
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Mark E. Ellinghouse
Real Estate Legal Updates
The classic fable of The Tortoise and the Hare is well-known across mainstream culture. Yet despite the story’s reliable and surprisingly universal thesis, it appears to have become commonplace for investors to look for faster and bigger results in lieu of slow and steady returns. And with recent high rates of…
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Mark E. Ellinghouse
Real Estate Legal Updates
There are not many things in life that are truly “one size fits all.” We certainly don’t take this approach when it comes to our clothes, our TV shows, or our lunches. Yet for some reason, we regularly employ this method in our commercial real estate transactions. Almost daily, I am…
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