NAHBNow In a huge victory for NAHB and its members, the U.S. Supreme Court today reversed a long-standing land use decision that made it nearly impossible for property owners to bring a Fifth Amendment takings claim in federal court. In 1985, the Supreme Court issued a decision, referred to as the Williamson County decision, that forced land use plaintiffs to …
Jordan Rose, Rose Law Group Founder and President, talks to Phoenix Business Journal about demand surge in Valley’s new home market
By Angela Gonzales | Phoenix Business Journal For the past eight months, homebuilders in the Valley have experienced lower demand for new homes than the previous year. But that streak has been broken. From mid-May through mid-June, new home sales shot up 16% year over year, said Jim Belfiore, founder of Phoenix-based Belfiore Real Estate Consulting and author of KnowledgeBase Current & Future Market Insights reports. That’s …
Omar Abdallah, Rose Law Group attorney handling hemp-related issues, clues us in on hemp biz offshoots
By Omar Abdallah, Rose Law Group With the passing of the Farm Bill, the hemp industry is expected to grow substantially. What are the emerging business opportunities that will develop alongside hemp farming? The passing of the 2018 Farm Bill brings with it a whole new industry. Opportunities exist not only for farmers wanting to grow hemp, but also for all …
The future of housing rises in Phoenix
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Offerpad High-tech flippers such as Zillow are using algorithms to reshape the housing market By Ryan Dezember and Peter Rudegeair | The Wall Street Journal Armed with loads of cash and the latest in machine learning, investors are reshaping the $26 trillion market for U.S. residential real estate, starting in Phoenix, the petri dish for America’s housing experiments. At …
Do CBD businesses have to follow the Arizona hemp rules? Omar Abdallah, Rose Law Group attorney handling hemp-related issues, explains
By Omar Abdallah, Rose Law Group Do CBD business have to follow the Arizona hemp rules? No, the Arizona Hemp Program oversight only extends from the growth and cultivation of industrial hemp to the point of processing, so CBD products may be manufactured and sold in Arizona without regulation from the Department of Agriculture. CBD products may still be subject …
Data center users sought for 640-acre Pinal County site
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Saint Holdings Site already has access to high-end fiber optic capabilities By Corina Vanek | Phoenix Business Journal Saint Holdings LLC, the Scottsdale real estate firm behind major land deals in Pinal County, is preparing to put a 640-acre “mega-site” on the market that company leaders said would be a perfect fit for a data …
Michael Lafferty wants to bring $70M workforce housing development to Pinal
Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Michael Lafferty By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter Developer Michael Lafferty is looking to bring a new $70 million workforce housing development to Pinal County. “I have 20 acres on Highway 87,” said Lafferty, who is president of Phoenix-based Lafferty Development. The project could total 600 units and is aimed at proving affordable …
Omar Abdallah, Rose Law Group attorney handling hemp-related issues, addresses hemp application time frames
By Omar Abdallah, Rose Law Group When is the deadline to submit an application to deal with hemp in Arizona? There is no deadline to submit an application to grow, harvest, transport, or process hemp in Arizona. Applications for licensing must be submitted to the Department of Agriculture and are accepted on a rolling basis. Licenses issued in 2019 are …
Omar Abdallah, Rose Law Group attorney handling hemp-related issues, discusses land use rules for growing hemp
By Omar Abdallah, Rose Law Group What do the Arizona hemp rules say about what kind of land you need to grow hemp? Not much, really. Growers of hemp in Arizona are bound by the Arizona Hemp Program Rules and a licensing agreement they must enter with the Department of Agriculture. The rules and license agreement state that a grower …
Who owns the moon? Current ‘Final Frontier’ ownership laws antiquated, says Rose Law Group Founder and President Jordan Rose
By Daniel Downey | Politico Back in 1980, a former ventriloquist and car salesman named Dennis Hope was out of work, going through a divorce and struggling to make ends meet. As he tells it, he was driving along wondering what he could do for cash flow when he looked through the car window, saw the moon and thought: “Now …