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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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2024
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27
2017
Breasting Dolphin Piles and Fortuity Under All-Risk Policies Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
19
2014
Utah Federal Court Finds Endangered Species Act Cannot Regulate Species on Private Lands Within a Single State Beveridge & Diamond PC
Apr
4
2019
Revenue Procedure 2019-17 – The IRS Issues Helpful Guidance on Qualified Residential Rental Projects Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
15
2010
Fifth Circuit Update: Insurance, Real Estate and NLRB (Oh My!) Hunton Andrews Kurth
Feb
13
2017
New Orleans Tornado Disaster: Individuals and Businesses To Benefit From Federal Disaster Declaration Jones Walker LLP
Jul
23
2020
New Florida Receivership Statute Gives Commercial Mortgage Lenders Potential Leverage Foley & Lardner LLP
Feb
22
2024
UK Company Restructuring Plans: What is Next After Adler? K&L Gates
Feb
28
2017
Business Rates Revaluation in the UK and 1954 Act Statutory Compensation Katten
Aug
3
2020
Master in Chancery Dismissive of Fiduciary Seek Dismissal, Applies familiar 12(B)(6) Standard K&L Gates
Mar
1
2024
Fifth Circuit Continues Bankruptcy Sale Protections After Supreme Court MOAC Opinion Miller Canfield
Apr
30
2019
The Second Set of Proposed Opportunity Zone Regulations Proskauer Rose LLP
Aug
2
2013
Developers Knock Out Local California Zoning Hurdle Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Mar
9
2011
Local Land Use Issues Arising In Foreclosure Williams Mullen
Aug
17
2020
IRS Issues REIT-Favorable Ruling for Taxable REIT Subsidiary in Private Equity International Healthcare Acquisition McDermott Will & Emery
Mar
7
2024
New York Court Decision Disrupts “Good Guy Guaranty” Liability Limitations Blank Rome LLP
May
7
2019
Executive Summary: IRS Issues Second Installment of Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund (QOF) Proposed Regulations Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
9
2013
In-House Loan Modifications In South Carolina Are Not The Unauthorized Practice of Law Poyner Spruill LLP
Apr
10
2011
In Florida Zoning Case Participant’s Right to Cross-Examine Witnesses Denied Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed, P.A.
Mar
28
2017
Peru Flooding Spurs Infrastructure Investments Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Dec
21
2014
Considerations for the Boat Slip Sales Re-Emergence Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Sep
4
2020
COVID-19 Update: CDC Order Temporarily Halts Residential Evictions Nationwide until December 31, 2020 Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jun
29
2022
Foreclosure Does Not Extinguish Assignment of Rents Miller Canfield
Aug
22
2013
Is The 9th Circuit’s Decision on Trial Payment Plan Promises the Prelude to a Cautionary Tale? Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Apr
26
2011
Lenders Taking Title by Foreclosure or Deed in Lieu: The Advantages of Obtaining an Owner’s Title Insurance Policy Poyner Spruill LLP
Apr
14
2017
Additional Opportunity for Increased Extension of Building Permits and Development Orders Bilzin Sumberg
Dec
31
2014
City of Los Angeles Outsources Defense of CEQA/Land Use Lawsuits To Private Law Firms – Developers To Foot The Bill Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
29
2024
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