By The Daily Business Review | February 12, 2024
In The Daily Business Review's Real Estate special section, read about affordable housing and how to expand it, condominium special assessments and wetland mitigation credits.
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By Roberto C. Blanch | February 9, 2024
With all the growing costs for Florida community associations attributed to rising insurance premiums and the looming deadlines for new requirements for milestone inspections and structural integrity reserves, many boards of directors are now or soon will be considering one of the most dreaded measures by unit owners: a special assessment.
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By Raquel A. Rodriguez, Kyle B. Teal and Dane L. Stuhlsatz | February 9, 2024
The act's core goal is to increase the availability of affordable housing by removing or reducing bureaucratic barriers that local governments impose on affordable housing projects by incentivizing private development. Issues raised over its application during its first year in action have prompted the Legislature to consider amendments to the act to more narrowly tailor its focus on housing affordability in Florida while adding clarity to its impacts on local governments.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Louis Guay | February 9, 2024
These studies, typically performed by multidisciplinary teams of engineers and tax specialists, can result in substantial tax deferrals, increased cash flows, and immediate capital boosts for investment in new projects.
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By Eric Olsen | February 9, 2024
Wetland impacts from land development in Florida are regulated via state and federal environmental permitting programs. To permit unavoidable wetland impacts, the regulatory agencies require lost wetland functions to be made up or mitigated by creating or enhancing wetlands somewhere else.
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By Mark M. Heinish | February 8, 2024
Chapter 558 of the Florida Statutes was enacted by the Florida Legislature in 2003 as "an alternative method to resolve construction disputes that would reduce the need for litigation as well as protect the rights of property owners."
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By Jill Backer | February 8, 2024
Here is an assurance to the client that attorneys have regulation when it comes to their use of technology, in general and AI in particular. We are not entering Thunderdome in pursuit of some easy answers. The use of artificial intelligence must be practically managed to gain public confidence.
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By Gary Itskovich and Rusty Melges | February 8, 2024
So far, 2024 is shaping up to present clearer skies for banks, specifically community banks in South Florida as domestic migration and corporate relocations to the area continue. The U.S. Census Bureau ranked Florida as number two in population growth from 2022 to 2023.
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By Brad Rustin, Erin Kolmansberger, Marianna McDevitt and Lashania White | February 7, 2024
This latest action by the CFPB follows the back-and-forth seen in the prudential bank regulators relating to the imposition of overdraft fees and insufficient funds (NSF) fees. Many bankers will recall that in August 2022, the FDIC issued guidance noting that the imposition of multiple NSF fees for the same transaction "results in heightened risks of … unfair or deceptive acts or practices (UDAP)," even when fully disclosed to the customer.
Daily Business Review | Commentary
By Ira H. Leesfield | February 6, 2024
With a shrinking globe joined by the utilization of mass media and computer power, it is now possible (and perhaps necessary) for your law firm to "cast a wider net" in the marketing world.
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