The deadly collapse of Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida on June 24, 2021, represents a watershed moment for shared-interest communities in Florida and nationwide. It exposed a fatal fault in the administration of condominium communitie…
CooperatorNews recently published an interview with Rebecca Poole, Director of Membership and Communication at the Council of New York Cooperatives & Condominiums (CNYC) about the quandary facing many co-op and condo communities around ac…
New York City’s expanding roster of Local Laws has come with an expanding list of compliance requirements for co-op and condo communities. The cost of compliance is becoming onerous, particularly for multifamily residential buildings, inclu…
In a historic turn for national real estate policy, the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act officially became federal law on July 11, 2026. The landmark legislation took an unusual constitutional path to enactment. After clearing the U.S. Sen…
Kitchen and bath renovations are notoriously tricky. Plumbing, water and gas lines, cabinetry and appliances are just a few of the elements that make these projects more complex than, say, upgrading a living room or home office. They’re als…
With Intro 1120-B—better known as New York’s new co-op transparency law— taking effect in a couple of weeks, CooperatorNews sat down with Julie Schechter, a partner with Manhattan-based law firm Fox Rothschild, to get the lowdown on wha…
Most of us hold our co-op shares individually or jointly with a spouse or partner. Co-op shares can be also held in a trust. Which is the best choice? CooperatorNews asked Hal Coopersmith, principal of Coopersmith & Coopersmith, a law fir…
NYC’s landlords, co-op shareholders and condominium owners are seeking innovative ways to reduce their carbon emissions and improve the energy efficiency of their buildings. As prime energy-users, heating ventilation and air conditioning sy…
With the clamor and confusion around compliance with Local Law 97 (LL97) requirements, co-op and condo communities across the city are seeking innovative ways to solve their compliance issues. One novel approach is to consider a distributed…
Over the past decade, corporate consolidation has become a fact of life across multiple industries—so much so that when the trend heats up in a new sector, we barely notice it anymore. Airlines merge; banks get bigger and bigger by swallowi…