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Real Estate, both commercial and residential, is constantly evolving. The National Law Review covers the latest legal analysis in real estate and construction law across a variety of governmental levels—state and federal. Additionally, NLR covers updates related to transportation and other utilities and public works.

Public and private construction projects, financing, mortgages, tax cuts and incentives, foreclosures, and other topics are covered regularly and updated routinely on the site. Other areas covered include litigation, mediation, and arbitration which affects owners/contractors/subcontractors in the field, government agency news, and coverage of news/stories related to lenders, insurers, and sureties in the industry.

Public work issues are also covered frequently by the National Law Review. Infrastructure financing, topics including entitlements, development rights, property rights, the public-private partnership (P3), permitting, local ordinances, variances, and different legislation/restrictions in development. Coverage of development and property owner rights, cases involving homeowners associations, fees, pending litigation, and changes to local/state/federal ordinances and variances, are also available.

Additionally, the National Law Review covers regulations and legislation as it relates to mortgages and other real estate lending requirements; including, the requirements imposed on lenders under RESPA, and other news from the CFPB as it relates to homeownership and mortgage procedures, such as the Know Before You Owe Rule.

Articles related to highway safety, transportation news, and other utilities-topics, are also covered by the National Law Review. Coverage of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and changes to the organization are analyzed by NLR legal experts. The emerging technology of autonomous vehicles, developments in that technology, and the emerging regulation around driverless cars are analyzed, and the impact of this game-changing technology is considered.

In the construction arena, reporting worker injuries on the job site, and coverage of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) laws are extensively reported on by the attorney writers at the National Law Review. 

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Recent Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure & Zoning News

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May
17
2013
Projecting Retirement Income on Quarterly Participant Benefit Statements for Defined Contribution Plans Faegre Drinker
Jul
20
2009
Stabilization Of Housing Market Will Create Additional Public/Private Partnership Opportunities Fairfield and Woods P.C.
Jun
25
2015
Supreme Court Fair Housing Ruling: Will Plaintiff Housing Victory Help Employers? Jackson Lewis P.C.
Apr
7
2021
MEES Update K&L Gates
Dec
15
2017
Don’t Overlook Your Property Taxes This Holiday Season Dickinson Wright PLLC
Feb
10
2023
Real Estate Agents Are Independent Contractors As A Matter Of Law If Requirements Met Proskauer Rose LLP
Aug
13
2009
2008 Year in Review: The Supreme Court of North Carolina Poyner Spruill LLP
Jul
9
2015
The Newest Sign for Some Sign Ordinances: Stop McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
May
3
2021
NYC Proposed Citywide Hotel Special Permit Moves into the Public Review Process Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Nov
8
2019
Financial Services Update: Week Ending November 1, 2019 Carlton Fields
Jun
3
2013
Court Of Chancery Finds CalPERS Breached Implied Covenant Of Good Faith And Fair Dealing Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jan
5
2018
HUD Starts The Rollback Of Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing? Ballard Spahr LLP
May
10
2021
Pandemic-Driven Devalued Retail Real Estate Owners Should Seek Property Tax Reductions Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jun
12
2013
Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Not Needed Before Starting Eminent Domain Proceeding Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
25
2018
DOJ Memorandum Supports Government Dismissal of Qui Tam False Claims Act Cases Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Mar
10
2023
Momentum for Streamlining and Subsidizing Office-to-Residential Conversion Projects Builds in Sacramento and San Francisco Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Aug
3
2015
Your Patriotic Duty?: Post-9/11 Federal Compliance Requirements in Real Estate Transactions von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
May
20
2021
Regis – Another Loss For Regis – Another Loss For UK Landlords In Their Battle Against CVAsUK Landlords In Their Battle Against CVAs Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Feb
9
2018
House Again Passes Legislation to Review Points and Fees Ballard Spahr LLP
Mar
21
2023
Residential Landlord Provision That Can Cause Big Trouble
Jul
28
2010
Tax-Exempt Financing Available to Private Entities in 2010 Bracewell LLP
Aug
13
2015
Fair Housing Act and Disparate-Impact – Is There a Bit of a Silver Lining in the Dark Cloud of a Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decision? von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Dec
20
2019
Two Pairs of Eyes Are Better Than One: Why Community Associations and Developers Should Have Separate Legal Counsel Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jun
27
2013
Supreme Court Decision Limits Ability of Government Agencies to Impose 'Extortionate' Permit Conditions on Landowners Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
21
2018
Tips to Help Property Managers Effectively Manage Meetings Stark & Stark
Mar
30
2023
Update: Proposal to Increase Tax on Chicago Real Estate Transfers Chuhak & Tecson, P.C.
Jun
15
2021
Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Modifies "Stranger to the Deed" Rule Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Jul
11
2013
Illinois Enacts Concealed Carry Law Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
 

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