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Several key bills were passed during Florida’s 2025 legislative session that pertain to the real estate industry, including those that focus on housing affordability and development regulation. Notable legislation from this session includes updates to the Live Local Act, amendments involving local government land development regulation, changes to the availability of wetlands mitigation, and streamlining of the platting process. Below is a high-level overview of some of the real-estate-related highlights from the 2025 State of Florida legislative session.

Read “Navigating Florida’s New Real Estate Landscape: Essential 2025 Legislative Updates for Smart Development & Property Investment” authored by Julie P. Kendig-Schrader, Ali Sachoo, and Kerri L. Barsh for the Orlando Business Journal. 

Photo of Julie P. Kendig-Schrader Julie P. Kendig-Schrader

Julie P. Kendig-Schrader represents clients in land use and environmental matters and administrative litigation. She works with clients to create public/private partnerships for infrastructure needs, particularly those related to transportation. With sustainability concerns and initiatives cutting across virtually all sectors of business today…

Julie P. Kendig-Schrader represents clients in land use and environmental matters and administrative litigation. She works with clients to create public/private partnerships for infrastructure needs, particularly those related to transportation. With sustainability concerns and initiatives cutting across virtually all sectors of business today, Julie strives to keep her clients ahead of the curve to maximize opportunities and minimize unnecessary costs and risks.

Prior to joining the firm, Julie was with the South Florida Water Management District Office of Counsel.

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Photo of Ali Sachoo Ali Sachoo

Ali is a member of the Real Estate Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Orlando Office. He focuses on multi-state real estate finance and secured lending transactions, conducting due diligence, drafting security instruments, ancillary documents and opinion letters on behalf institutional lenders, private equity funds…

Ali is a member of the Real Estate Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Orlando Office. He focuses on multi-state real estate finance and secured lending transactions, conducting due diligence, drafting security instruments, ancillary documents and opinion letters on behalf institutional lenders, private equity funds, investors, and borrowers. He has represented clients in connection with acquisition, financing, leasing, disposition of wide range of classes of commercial real estate. In addition, he focuses his practice on land use and zoning law representing developers and property owners in securing entitlements, permits and conducts zoning due diligence. He has drafted various agreements on behalf of developers and property owners including developer agreements and easement agreements. He is also active in mergers and acquisitions representing both buyers and sellers in transactions ranging from 1 million to several million dollars.

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Photo of Kerri Barsh Kerri Barsh

Kerri L. Barsh is Co-Chair of the firm’s Environmental Practice and represents public and private clients on an array of environmental regulatory, permitting and litigation matters, including transactional support and due diligence, environmental assessment and liability matters, climate change, energy and infrastructure projects,

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Kerri L. Barsh is Co-Chair of the firm’s Environmental Practice and represents public and private clients on an array of environmental regulatory, permitting and litigation matters, including transactional support and due diligence, environmental assessment and liability matters, climate change, energy and infrastructure projects, wetlands and coastal permitting, complex land use projects, air quality matters, hazardous materials contamination, and other compliance and enforcement cases. Kerri is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

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