Months after commercial real estate data company Reis sued ATCO Properties & Management for stealing hundreds of reports from the company’s website without paying, a judge has rejected ATCO’s motion to dismiss the suit. In March of this year,...
Tenants of at least 50 buildings in the trendiest neighborhoods of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens have lived rent-free for years and their landlords can’t do anything about it. Shielded by the Loft Law, a statute meant to protect at-risk renters...
A dispute over Long Island City listings has been moved to federal court and for Compass, which stands accused of boosting data from a competing firm, that’s a good thing. The move gives the Brooklyn-based brokerage a chance to get out from under...
A federal judge has given a group of renegade Downtown tenants the green light to keep living rent-free. The 17 residents of 533 Greenwich Street, a rundown former warehouse in Hudson Square, haven’t paid a penny in rent for 25 years. Now, thanks...
A class-action lawsuit filed against a leading Westchester brokerage accuses the firm of using “bait-and-switch” tactics to lure clients into forfeiting their right to dedicated representation. The suit alleges that Houlihan Lawrence, a...