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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
26
2012
Michigan Court of Appeals Issues Opinion Affecting Mortgages Foreclosed by Advertisement Varnum LLP
Mar
30
2023
Update: Proposal to Increase Tax on Chicago Real Estate Transfers Chuhak & Tecson, P.C.
Aug
6
2015
Illinois Court Limits the Enforcement of a Waiver of the Implied Warranty of Habitability Against a Claim by a Subsequent Purchaser Much Shelist, P.C.
Apr
10
2014
Ninth Circuit Rules National Banks are Residents Only of Their Home State Bilzin Sumberg
May
18
2012
Loan Modification Scammers Recruiting Lawyers Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission
Apr
11
2023
COVID-19 National Emergency Ends Sooner than Anticipated, Creating Risks for Mortgage Servicers Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Feb
15
2018
House Passes Bill to Amend TRID Rule Disclosures Ballard Spahr LLP
Apr
17
2014
"Rails to Trails" or "Rails to Trespass": Supreme Court Speaks on the Abandonment of Certain Railroad Rights of Way Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jan
28
2020
Five Tips for Landlords of Cannabis-Related Businesses ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jun
14
2012
Maryland Indemnity Deeds of Trust – A Closed Loophole? Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
Mar
1
2018
Permanent or Temporary Deferral of Tax on Gains: Opportunity Zones Ballard Spahr LLP
Sep
16
2015
Credit Bidding and Obtaining Confirmation of Sheriff's Sales of Mortgaged Real Estate von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Apr
30
2014
Appellate Court of Illinois Provides Guidance On Condo Board Operations & Owners’ Rights Much Shelist, P.C.
Feb
5
2020
Bill To Allow LLC Real Estate Broker's License Is Not Dead Yet Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jul
8
2012
Is your Neighbor’s Dock on your Bottomlands? Equitably Apportioning Riparian Rights. Varnum LLP
May
1
2023
Restrictive Covenants in Real Estate: Next Antitrust Enforcement Target? Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Mar
16
2018
Ohio Residential Mortgage Lending Act Takes Effect Next Week Ballard Spahr LLP
Sep
29
2015
PortMiami Espera Continuar Con El éxito de Las P3 Bilzin Sumberg
Jul
27
2021
HUD Announces New COVID-19 Recovery Loss Mitigation Options Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
May
13
2014
North Carolina Court of Appeals Upholds Use of Zoning Powers Against Landlords to Regulate Parking By Tenants Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Feb
25
2020
Court of Appeal Has "No Comment" On Trulia Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jul
24
2012
Cottage Planning: Dealing with Estate Taxes, Part II Varnum LLP
Aug
6
2021
New Laws Possible in Massachusetts - Proponents Set Sights on 2022 Ballot Mintz
Aug
19
2012
The Sixth Circuit rules on the deadline for completing action on a CAFA appeal and whether a third-party defendant may remove under CAFA Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
May
28
2023
Supreme Court Issues Decision in Sackett v. EPA Rolling Back Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Over Certain Wetlands ArentFox Schiff LLP
Apr
27
2018
CFPB Finalizes Black Hole Fix under TRID Rule Ballard Spahr LLP
Aug
25
2021
Narrow Best-Price Clauses Between Platforms and Hotels: German Federal Court of Justice Overturns Court Decision that Ruled These Permissible Under Antitrust Rules K&L Gates
Jun
11
2014
Implications of the New California LLC (Limited Liability Company) Act Mintz
 

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