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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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Apr
21
2015
North Carolina Court of Appeals Dismisses Municipal Takings Claim For Failing "Public Benefit" Standard Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
26
2023
ACKRat is asking the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the Vineyard Wind Project as time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'...into the future. Mintz
Dec
5
2013
Abandonment Does Not Lift Stay Re: Bankruptcy Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Mar
10
2022
Challenge to Housing and Revitalization Project Found Not Cognizable under the Fair Housing Act and California Fair Employment and Housing Act Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct
19
2011
GOP Candidates in Foreclosure Capital Say Government Not the Solution to Crisis Center for Public Integrity
May
8
2015
Proposed State North Carolina Constitutional Amendment Regarding Eminent Domain Powers Supported By House, Readies for Senate Vote Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Dec
24
2013
How Can I Get a Cell Tower on My Property? Varnum LLP
Mar
24
2022
CFPB Director Addresses the Final Report of the Interagency Task Force on Property Appraisal and Valuation Equity Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Nov
10
2011
Recent Baylake Bank Case Questions a City’s Ability to Enforce Development Agreement Penalties as Taxes Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Oct
17
2017
Tax Exemption and Charitable Purpose – Anything New? Dickinson Wright PLLC
May
6
2020
City of Milwaukee Property Tax Notice of Assessment Objection/Appeal Deadline – May 18, 2020 Davis|Kuelthau, s.c.
Oct
19
2023
FRB Governor Bowman Speaks on Financial Stability Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jan
12
2014
Hey Wait, What About North Carolina's Fancy New Quasi-Judicial Statute? Poyner Spruill LLP
Apr
6
2022
No Temporary Relief for NYC Hotels from Severance Law Proskauer Rose LLP
Dec
13
2011
Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS): A Twenty First Century Creation Navigating An Eighteenth Century Legal System University of South Carolina School of Law
Oct
26
2017
Property Transfers Among Family Members Do Not Negate Innocent Party Status For Remediation Funding Grants - NJ Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Jun
3
2015
Real Estate Promoter Carlton Cabot Arrested – Is He the Worst Fraudster in Modern History? Mahany Law
Nov
6
2023
Environmental Justice Update: New Jersey Issues Guidance Promoting Use of Green and Sustainable Technologies in Remediation ArentFox Schiff LLP
Apr
21
2022
Court of Appeal Holds No-Project Alternative Analysis May Mean More When Conversation is an Option and Reinforces Low Barrier to Entry Under the Exhaustion Doctrine Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
14
2012
Michigan Riparian Rights: 2000 Baum Family Trust v Babel Varnum LLP
Jun
19
2015
OCC Revises Residential Real Estate Lending Guidance in Comptroller’s Handbook Katten
Nov
20
2023
Big Law Redefined: Episode 8 | 2023 Texas Legislative Session Wrap-Up Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
9
2022
Georgia Passes Historic Mortgage Licensing Law Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Feb
9
2012
Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Nonmetallic Mining Ordinance is not a Zoning Ordinance Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
May
23
2020
UPDATED: New York State Stays Evictions and Foreclosures Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic Mintz
Jul
1
2015
Update On Challenging Wetlands Permitting Decisions Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
19
2014
It’s That Time of the Year Again Re: Wisconsin Property Taxes Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
May
25
2022
Proving Liability Against Apartment Buildings Buckfire Law
 

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