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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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Custom text Organization
Dec
21
2023
Expert Testimony Nice-to-Have, Not Must-Have in Insurance Claims Goulston & Storrs
May
30
2013
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Amends Ability-To-Repay Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
8
2016
Reaction to Uncertainty in Affordable Housing Industry Brought on by Trump Election Katten
May
20
2022
Allegheny County Property Tax Bills Could Be Lowered Based on Recent Consent Order Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky
May
28
2020
COVID-19 and E-Commerce are Changing Retailers’ Real Estate Footprints Hunton Andrews Kurth
Jan
5
2024
What Are Your Rights if EGLE or EPA Suspects Contamination at Your Property? Varnum LLP
Jun
11
2013
Renovate or Build New? Factors Healthcare Providers Need to Consider Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
18
2010
Wrongful Foreclosure – Verbal Assurance that Foreclosure Sale Will be Postponed May be Enforceable - Deliberate and Effective External and Internal Communication is Critical Holme Roberts & Owen LLP
Jan
6
2017
Serial Filers: Lenders And Lessors Given A New Remedy Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jun
1
2020
Judicial Council Amends Tolling Period for Statutes Limitations Impacted by COVID-19 Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
18
2013
Hospitals and Healthcare Systems Continue to Monetize Real Estate Assets Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jul
22
2010
New Los Angeles Ordinance Requires Banks And Lenders To Repair Vacant Residential Property Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
27
2017
Will The Bureau Of Real Estate Get A Promotion? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Nov
17
2014
Ownership of Michigan Islands Varnum LLP
Jun
9
2020
Massachusetts Land Court Dismisses Claim Asserting COVID-19-Related Impossibility Defense Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Jan
19
2024
Conditional Approval is Project Approval: Appellate Court Confirms CEQA Statute of Limitations Triggered by Tentative Map Approval Conditioned on Subsequent Rezoning Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
26
2013
Saying Goodbye to Fannie and Freddie as a Result of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis? Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Feb
9
2017
Fallout from Home Mortgage Crisis: Lender Claims Property Appraisers Are Liable for Lost Collateral Value Faegre Drinker
Nov
25
2014
Canadian Real Estate Brokerage Expands U.S. Reach Through South Florida Purchases Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
16
2020
Keeping “PACE” in Commercial Real Estate Improvements: A Primer on the New Washington Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy and Resiliency (C-PACER) Program K&L Gates
Jan
31
2024
Alabama Supreme Court Narrows Grounds to Challenge Mortgage Foreclosure Sales Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Dec
9
2014
CFPB Proposes Sweeping New Regulations for Prepaid Products Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Feb
13
2024
FHA Makes Rule Changes for Branch Registration Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Dec
15
2010
Fifth Circuit Update: Insurance, Real Estate and NLRB (Oh My!) Hunton Andrews Kurth
Mar
10
2017
Night of the Undead . . . Mortgages (Zombie Mortgages) Stark & Stark
Mar
24
2017
Legal Issues Related to California Warehouse Fire Steven M. Sweat, APC
Dec
19
2014
NYS Tax Department Reverses Position on Statutory Residence Rule McDermott Will & Emery
Jul
15
2020
COVID-19 Update: Oregon Law Prohibits Foreclosures During COVID Emergency Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
 
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