On September 30, 2024, Governor Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 1103, an unprecedented legislative measure affecting non-residential landlords’ transactions with a broadly defined class of “qualified commercial tenants.”
The United States Supreme Court’s most recent Takings case, Sheetz v. El Dorado County, California1 enunciated a seemingly simple holding, that legislatively-imposed development fees are not, as such, exempt from analysis under the Court’s “unconstitutional conditions doctrine” under Nollan v. California Coastal Commission2 and Dolan v. City of Tigard.3
Miller Starr Regalia (MSR), a preeminent California real estate and land use law firm for more than 60 years, today announced that eight of its attorneys across four practice areas are included in the 2024 Northern California Super Lawyers list. In addition, litigation associate Nicholas E. Ma is included in the 2024 Northern California 2024 Rising Stars list.
The notice of pending action, usually referred to by its Latin antecedent, “lis pendens,” is an important pretrial mechanism for preserving or maintaining priority of a litigant’s claim to title or a lien on the real property held by the opposing party.
Miller Starr Regalia (MSR), a preeminent California real estate and land use law firm for the past 60 years, announced today the return of Carolyn Nelson Rowan, who will serve as the editor-in-chief of legal treatise Miller & Starr, California Real Estate, succeeding longtime editor and shareholder, Karl Geier, when he retires at the end of 2024.
As residential mortgage interest rates have nearly tripled over the past 18 months, some participants in the real estate industry have been considering ways to market and sell real estate by keeping low-rate existing mortgages in place while transferring ownership of the property to a new owner or buyer.