When news broke earlier this year that the modest but attractive house on Long Island known as Geller I was going to be demolished, the outcry was immediate. The home’s significance in architectural history was beyond question. Its designer, Marcel Breuer, was among the most acclaimed of the mid-20th-century modernists […]
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Real Estate: Supply and demand is the law | Business
Editor’s note: This article was published in the Record-Eagle’s Momentum ’22 special publication. For more stories from northern Michigan’s economic engine, click here to read Momentum in its entirety online. TRAVERSE CITY — The law of supply and demand rules in the Traverse City housing market. Demand is high and supply is low, […]
Jim Valentine: Water is essential to real estate
Jim Valentine on Real Estate By Jim Valentine Sunday, May 1, 2022 Water is essential to life therefore it is essential to where you live. When you buy property in Nevada be sure you understand Nevada laws, policies, and procedures as they relate to water. Nevada is known for having […]
Gov. Kemp Names 40 Appointments
Atlanta, GA– Today, Governor Brian P. Kemp announced 40 appointments to various boards, commissions, and councils. State Board of Pharmacy James “Jim” Bracewell is the President and CEO of the Bracewell Group Ltd. In 2014, Governor Nathan Deal appointed Bracewell to serve as the consumer member on the State Board of […]
Real Estate Investor Climate Change Shifts
Related Practices & Jurisdictions The prospect of climate change, and the corresponding elevated risks to various forms of property and investments, are increasingly beginning to be priced in to widening swathes of the economy. While the energy sector–particularly fossil fuel production–was first identified as an industry likely to be impacted […]
Can you truly own anything in the metaverse? A law professor explains how blockchains and NFTs don’t protect virtual property
In 2021, an investment firm bought 2,000 acres of real estate for about US$4 million. Normally this would not make headlines, but in this case the land was virtual. It existed only in a metaverse platform called The Sandbox. By buying 792 non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, the firm […]
Buying Property in the Metaverse
In the six months since Facebook, Inc. rebranded to Meta Platforms, Inc., the idea of the “metaverse” has catapulted from a little-known science fiction fantasy to the forefront of popular culture. Despite this surge of interest, there is still limited consensus on what the term means and what its implications […]
Tech startups look to blockchains to change the future of real estate
Nate Gipson got a notice back in February that one of his rental homes in Memphis, Tennessee, needed a new ceiling fan. As a landlord, he thought the request was reasonable enough. But before the work could go forward, he had to hash it out with a group of other […]
Do blockchains and NFTs really protect virtual property?
But did it? It turns out that legal ownership in the metaverse is not that simple. The prevailing but legally problematic narrative among crypto enthusiasts is that NFTs allow true ownership of digital items in the metaverse for two reasons: decentralization and interoperability. These two technological features have led some […]
Real Estate Law for Predispute Employment Arbitration Agreements
The Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021 will have far-reaching implications for real estate employers that, like in many other industries, have relied on mandatory predispute arbitration agreements to resolve sexual harassment claims brought by employees. The Act limits the use of predispute arbitration agreements and […]