02 Apr, 2024 This Michigan Supreme Court Case Has the Potential to Guide Drone and Air Rights Law for the Nation By Jonathan Hayden While at first glance the Michigan Supreme Court case of Long Lake Township v. Maxon, appears to be a simple zoning dispute with a Fourth...
28 Mar, 2024 Unlocking the Future of Build-To-Rent Housing at the Annual Build-to-Rent Forum (East) By Yuanshu Deng Jamie Einbinder Goulston & Storrs participated in the 9th Annual Build-to-Rent Forum (East) that took place on March 20-21 in Nashville, Tennessee. This...
08 Mar, 2024 Relationships Rule at ICSC + OAC By Melissa Rivers “Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?” Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday asked this question in their popular 1947 song of the...
05 Mar, 2024 Will apartments solve housing scarcity? By David Linhart Governor Maura Healey has called out housing as Massachusetts’ biggest challenge—both increasing the pace of production and lowering the...
08 Jan, 2024 Renting in the wake of homeownership By David Linhart After the Great Depression, federal policy pushed single-family homeownership as the gold standard of housing through Federal Housing...
28 Nov, 2023 Claim Your Space: Identifying and Leveraging Your Highest and Best Use By Jaclyn Grodin “Highest and best use” (HBU) is commonly understood in the real estate industry as the reasonably probable and legal use of land that is...
21 Nov, 2023 Women Hold Up Half the Sky By Ling Kong I recently had the privilege of delivering opening remarks to Project 2.8 at Columbia University, my alma mater. Project 2.8 is a startup...
18 Oct, 2023 The “City of Yes” Plan: Seven Proposed Changes to Alleviate NYC’s Housing Crisis By George Evans Andrew Shaw New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced seven key features of his administration’s “City of Yes” plan in September. Designed to update...
10 Oct, 2023 Justice Kahn Reminds Litigants Of the Risk of Legal Fee Awards By Charles Jacob III Justice Francis A. Kahn III, who presides over Part 32, the Mortgage Foreclosure and Mortgage Auction Part in Supreme Court, New York...
06 Oct, 2023 What happens when lenders cannot schedule a foreclosure sale within the 90-day statutory time period? By Jonathan Hayden Charles Jacob III The uptick in commercial foreclosures, combined with the still-lingering pandemic-induced delays, has created an environment,...
05 Sep, 2023 A Retail Renaissance By Jaclyn Grodin Jennifer Jones Karen O'Malley When you hear the phrase “commercial real estate” these days, you can’t help but think of the slumping state of the office real estate...
28 Jul, 2023 SABA North America Annual Conference – That's a Wrap! By Rajinder Saini A group of Goulston & Storrs attorneys – Mitali Biswas, Vaishali Goyal, Muryum Khalid, Kiman Kaur, and Rajinder Saini – had the wonderful...
17 Jul, 2023 The Semantic (and Substantive) Misconception in "Handing Back" the Keys By Timothy John Carter The phrase "hand back the keys" is frequently used in discussions of a borrower's options to address a distressed loan scenario, in real...
26 Jun, 2023 Planning for Continued Distress Across the Commercial Real Estate Industry: The Importance of Evaluating Options Early and Often By Jaclyn Grodin Trevor Hoffmann Douglas Rosner Distress in the commercial real estate (CRE) industry is on the rise, perhaps even more quickly than market participants had expected....
19 Oct, 2022 Through the Looking Glass of Bankruptcy Valuation Methodologies By Trevor Hoffmann The Second Circuit released a new decision this week in Sears regarding bankruptcy valuation methodologies and the entitlement of second...
06 Oct, 2022 Is the tidal wave approaching? By Trevor Hoffmann For a decade or more, restructuring professionals have predicted the coming of a bankruptcy boom. This may be the year those predictions...