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Disability Access and Lease Negotiations in California: What Commercial...
Recent amendments to an existing California statute regarding disability access for commercial property create requirements, of which landlords, tenants, and those representing them should be aware....
View ArticleThe Importance of Recordkeeping in Commercial Lease Administration
Many commercial leases provide for automatic extension of the term unless one party notifies the other in writing within a certain time frame that it desires not to extend the lease term. The...
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Cracks in the Law of Sidewalks
Under Massachusetts common law in effect since 1860, property owners have no duty to repair or warn of hazards on an abutting public sidewalk. This long-established rule was recently addressed by the...
View ArticleThe Law of Lis Pendens in Massachusetts and Rhode Island
If you are involved in a real estate dispute in Massachusetts or Rhode Island, it is important to know the law and procedure for obtaining, attacking, and defending a notice of lis pendens. A notice,...
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LeaseCraft – Lease Drafting and Automation Solution
In accordance with our commitment to delivering efficient and cost effective legal services for our clients, Sherin and Lodgen’s leasing team has established LeaseCraft, a technology based solution...
View ArticleCommercial Real Estate: Tensions in Due Diligence
Whenever a buyer wants to acquire real estate, due diligence can make or break the deal. For obvious reasons a buyer wants not to buy a “pig in a poke.” (As an aside, do you know the origin of “pig...
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Retailers Can Improve Leasing Efficiency with Document Automation
Corporate legal departments in the retail industry are under constant pressure to cut costs, and they often pass those pressures on to outside counsel. In turn, law firms are searching for new...
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Health Club as a Tenant in Retail and Mixed-Use...
A health club used to be an unwelcome tenant in any retail shopping center. The traditional thinking was that health club patrons occupied the parking areas at peak shopping times and for extended...
View ArticleDogs in Space: Negotiating Pet-Friendly Rules at Work
A fast growing, yet often overlooked topic in commercial leasing today involves pet ownership. Roughly 66 percent of Americans own a pet and, more and more, these owners are looking to bring their...
View ArticleSherin and Lodgen congratulates Transom Real Estate on purchase of South End...
Sherin and Lodgen congratulates our client, Transom Real Estate, a Boston-based real estate development firm, on the purchase of 46 Plympton Street. The multi-tenant five-story office building is...
View ArticleTips and Tricks for Negotiating Pet-Friendly Leases Part II: The Americans...
Commercial leases include many dangerous pitfalls and traps ready to snarl unsuspecting parties. From rent to insurance, taxes to operating expenses, both landlords and tenants spend hours poring over...
View ArticleCongratulations to our client, Knotel, on leasing first Boston location
Sherin and Lodgen congratulates our client, Knotel, on the leasing of their first Boston location at 239 Causeway St. The flexible workspace company will lease 26,000 square feet on the first and...
View ArticleGary M. Markoff and Ian T. Lane published in Thomson Reuters Practical Law
Gary M. Markoff, partner in the firm’s Real Estate and Corporate departments, and Ian T. Lane, partner in the firm’s Real Estate Department, recently published a guide to real estate loan drafting in...
View ArticleSJC Announces Outcome Prior to Decision, Reverses Appeals Court Decision, and...
The threshold question in many land use appeals is whether the appealing party has standing to object to the action of the local Building Inspector or Zoning Board. In an unusual step on March 6, 2020,...
View ArticleClient Alert: Rent Relief Considerations in the Time of COVID-19
“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing,” said Theodore Roosevelt. By now, everyone...
View ArticleClient Alert: What Landlords and Tenants Need to Know About Massachusetts...
Overview On April 2, 2020, the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed H.4615 (the “House Bill”), establishing a temporary moratorium on all but “emergency” evictions and foreclosures, in...
View ArticleWhen a Municipality Establishes Title by Adverse Possession, That is Not a...
A recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (“SJC”) decision highlighted the distinction between establishing rights in real estate by adverse possession or prescription and an eminent domain taking,...
View ArticleClient Alert: What Landlords, Tenants, Borrowers, and Lenders Need to Know...
Overview On April 20, 2020, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed H.4647 (the “Massachusetts Eviction and Foreclosure Moratorium Act” or the “Act”) into law. The Massachusetts Eviction and...
View ArticleClient Alert: The Main Street Lending Program
Background Following the enactment of the CARES Act, the Federal Reserve announced the establishment of the Main Street Lending Program (the “MSLP”) on April 9, 2020. Initially, the MSLP created the...
View ArticleSherin and Lodgen represents Breed’s Hill Capital in equity financing for...
Sherin and Lodgen’s Commercial Finance Group represented Breed’s Hill Capital, a Boston-based investment firm, in equity financing for the purchase of the Campus at Marlborough, a 531,916-square-foot...
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