No one could have predicted the extreme, once-in-a-lifetime events that began with the March 2020 emergence of COVID-19. Now, after almost three dramatic years, inflation and the Federal Reserve System’s (the Fed’s) corresponding interest rate hikes add even more...
Commercial Leases
NYC considering commercial rent regulation in small business leases
Originally introduced in 2019, a bill that would bring commercial rent control is again before the New York City Council. Rent control for business properties was in effect in New York City from World War II through 1963, but not reinstated since then. Key aspects of...
Status of NYC ban on collecting from some commercial-lease guarantors
According to a New York City local ordinance enacted in response to the public health emergency, commercial property owners may not enforce third-party personal guarantees to pay rent, utilities, maintenance fees or taxes on which the tenant has defaulted from March...
The New York state of commercial eviction during COVID-19
The COVID-19 era has been a roller coaster for New York City commercial property owners. Collectively, the amount of money at stake in the commercial leases in effect within the five boroughs is certainly astronomical, and when rent payments start to disappear,...