This Week's Boston Deal Sheet

Commercial real estate’s biggest players are largely silent on the subject of Roe v. Wade’s reversal, days after the historic ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that pinched one of the most sensitive nerves in American society.

In a ruling stating that the Constitution doesn’t ensure the right to an abortion, the Supreme Court gave the power to legalize or ban the procedure back to states. Fifteen states have laws active now or within the next 30 days that will ban or severely restrict abortions, with four more states expected to ban most or all abortions in the near future, The Washington Post reported.

Bisnow reached out to about four dozen of the top names in commercial real estate development, investment, financing and brokerage to gauge their reactions and determine if and how they intend to alter employee benefits following the decision.

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Major players in the commercial real estate industry are urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to pump the brakes on a key piece of its proposed emissions reporting rules, saying it's too difficult to compile the data.

Industry groups like Real Estate Roundtable, Nareit and the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council wrote comments to the SEC last month advocating against individual companies being required to report emissions generated by certain building materials or tenants, a key component of the agency’s proposed climate change disclosure rule.

These comments, echoed by executives at firms like JLL and Prologis, show the industry is concerned about its ability to comply with the SEC’s proposed reporting regulations, despite comments submitted by many institutional investors cheering on the transparency required under said rules.

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