By Brandt Hollander, Partner Across the country, office occupancy has remained stubbornly low following the Covid-19 pandemic, while at the same time, apartment rents have exploded to record highs. This dual crisis has led to calls for the redevelopment of vacant office buildings for apartment use. While at first blush this appears to be a …
By Ryan Kirby, General Counsel of Insurance Office of America (Guest Contributor) The early stages of an insurance claim are often the most critical. Your phone rings – there was an accident at one of your properties, a bad environmental report came in, some worrisome information from an employee is reported. Make no mistake: potential …
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By Fernando Landa, Partner, and Lee Kaplan, Associate While economists and pundits may disagree about the likelihood of a recession in 2023, it is important for real estate investors to take steps now to prepare their portfolios for a potential economic slowdown given the stark rise in interest rates over the last ten months. From …
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By Fernando Landa, Partner, and Jamie Altman Buggy, Partner In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the City of Los Angeles implemented a temporary eviction moratorium to protect residential and commercial tenants during a time of widespread economic hardship. The moratorium went into effect on March 4, 2020 and did not expire until February 1, 2023, …
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By Lee Kaplan, Associate (Editor’s Note: This article was originally published here by Multi-Housing News.) The future of new real estate transfer taxes scheduled to take effect in April 2023—which have been worrying investors and other owners of valuable property in the City of Los Angeles—has been called into question due to a legal challenge …
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LOS ANGELES (January 17, 2023) — Harvest LLP, a growing premier commercial real estate law firm, announced three new team members: David Levine, Steven Jeppson and Julie Scher. Levine joins as a partner based in Los Angeles, while Jeppson and Scher are based in San Diego as CFO and Associate, respectively. According …
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Harvest partner Brandt Hollander has been selected as a winner for Connect Commercial Real Estate’s 2022 Annual Lawyers in Real Estate Awards. He was featured as one of 10 attorneys practicing in the Boston and New England region. The annual list spotlights 110 attorneys around the country from a variety of disciplines. Each was selected …
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Harvest is honored to be included in the 13th edition of “Best Law Firms” by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers® . The firm received a Tier 1 ranking in San Diego for Real Estate Litigation. The 2023 rankings incorporate more than 12.2 million evaluations of more than 22,000 firms in America, and about 500 firms received a Tier …
By Christopher Rizza, Partner Most clients are familiar with the old adage “time kills all deals”. Given current market conditions and the fact that a number of pundits believe that we are potentially entering into an economic slowdown, it is increasingly critical to complete real estate transactions – and commercial leases and purchase/sale agreements in particular …
Harvest Senior Counsel Cheryl Nieman Brechlin was recognized as a nominee for the L.A. Times B2B Publishing’s 2022 Inspirational Women Forum and Leadership Awards. The annual awards recognize and celebrate outstanding women from corporations and nonprofit organizations throughout California who demonstrated noteworthy success and accomplishments over the past 24 months. With formative professional experience in both transactional and …