By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman February 19, 2019 Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss “Collazo v. Netherland Property Assets” and “Maddicks v. Big City Properties” — two cases which outcomes may signal “potentially enormous changes in how practitioners will practice landlord-tenant law.” In front of the Court of Appeals are two cases which outcomes Full Article…
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The New Rules of Seeking a Buyout of a Rent-Regulated Tenant
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman January 29, 2019 The New Rules of Seeking a Buyout of a Rent-Regulated Tenant In their Rent Regulation column, Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss how recent changes to the New York City Administrative Code along with a recent decision in the Appellate Term, First Department, have Full Article…
New Rules of Substantial Rehabilitation to Remove Units from Rent Regulation
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman December 11, 2018 In their Real Estate Trends column, Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss a pair of new decisions from the Appellate Term, First Department which have toughened the standards under which a landlord may claim a substantial rehabilitation exemption from rent stabilization, the effect of Full Article…
Pay When Paid, Limits and Limitations
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman October 10, 2018 Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss “Pay-if-Paid” clauses in construction contracts and write: “Like many jurisdictions across the United States, New York outlaws Pay-If-Paid clauses, but, in New York’s case, only indirectly.” Construction projects entail financial risk—risks for the owners of the property, risks Full Article…
‘Altman’ Alters Vacancy Deregulation
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman May 2, 2018 Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss the recent landmark Housing Court case ‘Altman v. 285 West Fourth LLC’ where the Court of Appeals reversed the Appellate Division, First Department and deregulated thousands of New York City apartments. On April 26, 2018, the Court of Full Article…
Departmental Divide on Shareholder Family Occupancy
December 12, 2017 By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman discuss a split among the First and Second Department Appellate Divisions on their interpretations of a common clause in proprietary leases for cooperative apartments relating to whether a proprietary lessee must live in the apartment simultaneously with a close Full Article…
Contesting Relocation Liens: Innocent Landowners Get Burnt
June 13, 2017 By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman In a decision stronger on emotion than analysis, the Court of Appeals in Rivera v. HPD1 recently eliminated a building owner’s rapid path to determining the validity of liens placed against its building for housing preservation & development’s expenses in relocating the building’s tenants when Full Article…
The Sound and the Fury: Noise in Rentals, Co-ops and Condos
By Adam Leitman Bailey and Dov Treiman As New York City experiences ever denser housing, the problems with noise laws resound ever more clearly. The noise has gotten louder for many reasons. First more families have chosen to reside in this city and one of the loudest and unrepresented group of violators has been screaming Full Article…
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