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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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Feb
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2021
Real Estate Investors Beware - Corporate Transparency Act to Require Disclosure of Beneficial Ownership Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Jul
17
2024
Washington, D.C. Guidance on the Taxation of Leasehold Assignments Hunton Andrews Kurth
Jan
5
2023
EPA Adopts Updated Phase I Environmental Site Assessment Standard that Addresses PFAS and Other Emerging Contaminants Babst, Calland, Clements & Zomnir, P.C.
Oct
10
2017
CFPB Overreaches in Handling Alleged RESPA ABA Exemption Issues in Meridian Foley & Lardner LLP
Jan
8
2014
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Recent Developments: December 23, 2013 - January 3, 2014 Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
6
2011
Google, Microsoft Assume Roles of Judge, Jury and Executioner on the Web Ifrah Law
Jul
25
2024
Litigation Minute: Extreme Weather and Natural Disasters: Insurance Tips for Commercial Policyholders K&L Gates
Jan
24
2014
Boilerplate Language May Brew Trouble McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
May
26
2015
California Supreme Court Makes It Harder For Prevailing FEHA Defendants To Recover Their Costs Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
11
2012
Regulatory Update: SEC Adopts Final Rules Defining "Accredited Investor" Consistent with Dodd-Frank Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Oct
30
2017
HUD issues notice of RAD extensions for PHAs in disaster areas Ballard Spahr LLP
Feb
4
2014
Litigation Team Successfully Represents Commercial Landlord At Trial Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Jun
8
2015
Case Law Update: A Refresher on Unenforceable Agreements to Agree von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Feb
5
2012
Avoiding Pitfalls in Home Mortgage Foreclosures: Recent Changes to Michigan Law Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Aug
8
2024
Reacting to Tyler v. Hennepin County: Michigan Addresses Retroactivity of Legislative Fix Nelson Mullins
Feb
10
2023
Real Estate Agents Are Independent Contractors As A Matter Of Law If Requirements Met Proskauer Rose LLP
Nov
20
2017
Senate Banking Committee Schedules Dec. 5 Markup Of Regulatory Reform Bill Ballard Spahr LLP
Feb
17
2014
Agricultural Programs Could Gain Higher Funding in 2014 Varnum LLP
Jun
22
2015
German Real Estate Transfer Tax: A Trap for the Unwary Multinational McDermott Will & Emery
Mar
7
2012
Legislation Proposed in State of Michigan to Declare Solvency Covenants of Non-Recourse Loans Unenforceable: Finance, Insolvency & Restructuring Alert Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Feb
27
2014
Check the Zoning Regulations Before Operating a Business Out of Your Home! McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Jul
7
2015
High Standard for Invoking Equitable Estoppel Against the Government Reaffirmed Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
6
2021
Flood Warning: Water Is Rising on Cross-Collateral Clauses Jones Walker LLP
Mar
26
2012
Italy: Senate Approves Draft Revision of Restrictions to PV Plants on Agricultural Ground McDermott Will & Emery
Mar
10
2023
Momentum for Streamlining and Subsidizing Office-to-Residential Conversion Projects Builds in Sacramento and San Francisco Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jan
4
2018
Wisconsin Lawmakers Codify Homeowners' Right to Challenge Tax Assessments Without Interior Inspections von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Mar
9
2014
Joint Venturer May Be Partner By Estoppel Re: Nevada Business Organizations Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jul
17
2015
Fiscal Year Budget, Zoning Changes, Confederate Monuments - July 17th, 2015 North Carolina Legislative Update Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
 
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