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45L Energy Efficient Home Tax Credit Extended for 2021 by Covid Relief Bill

Green Building Law Update

133, signed into law by President Trump on December 27th, extended the 45L energy efficient home $2,000 tax credit, which had been scheduled to expire last year, to cover qualified new energy efficient homes sold or leased through 2021. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, H.R.

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Homeowner Associations Are Blocking Investor Purchases in Small Neighborhoods

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Homeowner associations made up of neighborhood volunteers are using their power to thwart investor purchases of suburban housing, which they say make their communities less desirable and make it more difficult for local families to buy houses, Realtor.com reports. Housing Markets. Housing Markets. Build to Rent.

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This Company Wants to Rent Out Tiny Homes in Your Backyard

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Would you sign a 99 year lease to rent out your backyard? A new Bay Area co-op wants to do just that to combat the area’s housing crisis. According to Fast Company, backyard cottages are relatively common in California, but rent out at market rate. Backyard cottages are already relatively common in California. cbroderick.

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Blockchain has come to U.S. Real Estate

Green Building Law Update

Propy later announced on July 23, 2018 a blockchain recorded property transaction in California involving the sale of 10 acres of land. Actually, the first deed in In California, was apparently recorded by Propy on a blockchain transaction in May and the San Francisco Recording office holds a deed containing blockchain information (.

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PulteGroup to Build 7,500 Single-Family For-Rent Homes

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The homes will be located across seven of PulteGroup’s communities and initial projects are located in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Texas, and Southern California, reports Million Acres. A high-demand housing market. Horton built and leased up the community before selling it to Fundrise. Demand for SFRs is growing.

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COVID 19 Commercial Building Liability

Green Building Law Update

Historically, state courts have awarded damages for negligent transmission of diseases imposing liability on individuals who have harmed others (from occupational diseases like silicosis inhaled while grinding steel, to cotenants in a two apartment house infected with tuberculosis, and having unprotected sex and transmitting AIDS).

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Transforming shopping malls into 21st century neighborhoods

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With the State of California encouraging housing development in commercial zones, these projects are prime opportunities for alleviating the housing crisis. Rarely are mall properties owned by a singular entity and they come with handfuls of long-term lease agreements with retailers.

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