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The latest episode of The GovNavigators Show features a conversation with George Guszcza, President & CEO of the National Institute of Building Sciences, joined by Managing Director Tom Scott and Senior Director Paul Firth.

It appears that some last minute legislative fail-safe maneuvering has in fact averted the untimely demise of the Distressed Condominium Relief Act.

The Richmond Highway's $937 million Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) mega project in southeastern Fairfax County is making significant progress, with construction set to begin in 2027 and be fully operational by 2031.

In commercial loan transactions involving real property located in the State of Wisconsin, lenders frequently call upon local Wisconsin counsel to opine whether the interest and other charges to be paid by the borrower pursuant to the proposed transaction will not be considered to be usurious.

The Washington Supreme Court's April ruling in Vargas v. RRA CP Opportunity Trust 1 prohibited nonjudicial foreclosure on Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOCs), but after granting reconsideration and withdrawing its original opinion, the legal landscape remains uncertain. Lenders now face ambiguity about which instruments qualify for nonjudicial foreclosure under the Deed of Trust Act, creating widespread confusion about enforcement mechanisms. What does this mean for creditors attempting to collect on HELOC

The Pennsylvania State Senate Urban Affairs Committee voted to amend Senate Bill 1302 and remove all provisions opposed by the Community Association Institute’s Legislative Action Committee.

As anticipated, in response to the widely unpopular holding in The Game Place, L.L.C. v. Fredericksburg 35, LLC, 813 S.E.2d 312 (Va. 2018), the governor of Virginia signed a bill on February 13, 2019

The Weingart Center Association hosted a special groundbreaking ceremony on July 6, 2021, to celebrate the upcoming construction of a 51-unit, 5-story permanent supportive housing development for seniors and...

Your Fair Housing Defense Blog Editor has written about the seven protected classes contained in our federal Fair Housing Act many times: race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status and disability.

Under the federal Fair Housing Act (as well as state, city, and county codes) it is against the law to discourage any person from viewing and/or renting a unit because that person belongs to a protected class or to assign any person to a particular section of an apartment community or to a specific floor in a building because of his/her status as a member of a protected class.

Many real estate sponsors face the question of how to fund their real estate project through syndication or a joint venture and are unsure of the difference.

It is generally well known that there are 60 days to challenge an administrative determination of a building permit application.

An issue which regularly comes up for apartment leasing office staff (and which is at times misunderstood) is just how much medical information about a disabled resident or applicant must be provided to management.

The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is considering drastic changes to Pennsylvania recording and conveyancing laws that would significantly increase real property transactional costs.

The timing of the project couldn't be better.

Nine years after developers purchased a plot of undeveloped land in Philadelphia’s Roxborough neighborhood, the land remains undeveloped and tied up in court where a judge says the city ‘de facto’ took the land from its owners by not paving a roadway.