Kate McNeece at the CBA Competition Law Fall Conference 2025

Despite an international focus on big tech and AI, the world’s oldest asset – real estate – has emerged as a key area of competition law interest and enforcement. This panel will discuss the emergence of restrictive covenants and exclusivity in commercial leases as an enforcement priority, the use of algorithms for rent setting and recently-initiated investigations and litigation, and the US National Association of Realtors settlement and the follow-on investigation and class actions in Canada, as well as analysis of market shares in real estate-related merger reviews. This session will be of particular interest to in-house counsel as they consider the implications of recent developments on their organizations’ real estate interests.