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When lightning struck the apartment building at 655 New York Ave. in Brooklyn, it started a blaze that ripped through more than 100 apartments. More than 200 firefighters arrived on the scene. Three and a half hours later, the fire was under control, but the homes were incinerated. That was in 2012. To this day, the building’s residents haven’t been able to return. The building is one of nearly 9,000 in New York City that have been placed under an order to vacate since 2012 — an emergency protection that today is being slapped on a record number of buildings, according to a Bisnow analysis of city data. “It’s all tremendously frustrating,” Legal Aid Society... Read more
Tamiaka Bryant has rebuilt her life from scratch before. She doesn’t want to have to do it again. Originally from North Carolina, Bryant saw her hometown of New Bern...
A new federal housing law is putting limits on some of the country’s largest buyers of single-family homes. But for the typical independent landlord, the story is...
Oregon multifamily owners who have considered converting their apartment communities to smoke-free housing under the new law may want to start planning now. Beginning...
If there is one fair housing topic that has generated a disproportionate amount of litigation, complaints, training questions, and frustration over the past decade, it...
A 1031 exchange allows investors to defer capital gains taxes by reinvesting sale proceeds into a new property of equal or greater value. Use this strategy to preserve investor capital and speed up long-term portfolio growth. This regulatory mechanism represents one of the most powerful tax benefits of real estate investing available today. Financial Comparison: Standard Sale vs. 1031 Exchange Executing a 1031 exchange directly impacts an investor’s available capital stack and subsequent net operating income. Paying capital gains tax immediately reduces the equity available for future property acquisitions. Keeping that equity creates a compounding effect on wealth generation. According... Read more
Virginia’s new “Clean Slate” law, effective July 1, 2026, significantly expands the availability of criminal record sealing and introduces new compliance...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani released the highly anticipated findings from his administration’s “Rental Ripoff” hearings on Thursday and laid out a list of ways that the...
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (FHEO) issued an enforcement memorandum on May 22, 2026,...
After racking up almost 2,000 violations, two Bronx landlords have been ordered to pay tens of millions of dollars in penalties over the conditions of their...
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