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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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Jul
6
2022
Once a wetland may always be a wetland when it comes to application of federal and state wetland protection laws! Mintz
Apr
20
2017
UK Proposal for Register of Foreign Beneficial Ownership of Real Estate Continues Global Trend Toward Transparency Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Aug
6
2013
Checking the "Landscape" of the North Carolina General Assembly's Just-Concluded Session Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jan
5
2015
GAO Reaffirms Protest Jurisdiction Over “Mixed Transaction” Leases, But Questions Remain Covington & Burling LLP
Aug
25
2020
The Essential 21st Century MDU Amenity—Highspeed Broadband Service Keller and Heckman LLP
Jul
21
2022
Summary of the Biden Administration’s Fiscal Year 2023 Green Book Tax Proposals Proskauer Rose LLP
May
9
2017
North Carolina Supreme Court Adopts "Substantial Competent Evidence" Requirement for Borrowers Asserting "True Value" Defense in Foreclosure Deficiency Actions Ward and Smith, P.A.
Aug
19
2013
It's Time to Update Your Real Estate Forms (at Least in California) von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Apr
14
2011
Municipalities Are Responsible For Discharges Of Stormwater Regardless Of The Ultimate Source Of Pollution Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Sep
11
2020
CDC Announces New Residential Eviction Moratorium Order Through End of 2020 Davis|Kuelthau, s.c.
Apr
12
2024
Florida’s Live Local Act Affordable Housing Property Tax Exemption Amended to Allow Tax Jurisdictions to Opt Out Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
28
2019
Mortgage-specific provisions in the CFPB’s proposed debt collection rules Ballard Spahr LLP
Aug
28
2013
North Carolina Court of Appeals Ends Its August on the Scope of Easements and Appeals of Quasi-Judicial Decisions Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jan
26
2015
California Commissioner of Business Oversight Ponders Whether To Exempt Real Estate Brokers From Investment Adviser Registration Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
May
12
2011
1099-A Reporting Requirements May Apply to You Poyner Spruill LLP
Sep
29
2020
Solar Energy Lease – What Landlords Should Know Norris McLaughlin P.A.
Apr
23
2024
Boston’s Squares + Streets Zoning Initiative Advances Goulston & Storrs
Jun
18
2019
Does An Attorney's Fee Clause Survive Contract Rescission? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jun
6
2017
Reducción De Impuesto A Las Ventas Sobre La Renta Comercial En Florida Bilzin Sumberg
Sep
13
2013
Johnson v. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
13
2011
CERCLA Updates Greenberg Traurig, LLP
May
8
2024
Japan: FSA Requires Real Estate Funds Take Additional Safeguards Against Conflicts of Interest K&L Gates
Jun
27
2019
DACA Recipients Are Ineligible For FHA Mortgage Insurance Officially, But Lending To DACA Recipients And Other Immigrant Communities Is Subject To Many Unresolved Compliance Challenges K&L Gates
Jun
19
2017
Third Circuit Court Rebuffs Consumer Financial Protection Bureaus RESPA “Continuing Violations” Theory Foley & Lardner LLP
Oct
4
2013
Maryland Legislature Fixes Problems Left Over From 2012 Indemnity Deed of Trust (IDOT) Legislation Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
7
2011
Mortgage Servicing Standards at the Top of Consumer Agency's Agenda Center for Public Integrity
Nov
10
2020
SB 1079: Changes to Nonjudicial Foreclosure Process Aim to Benefit Tenants, Primary Residence Occupants and Community Groups; Uncertainty Looms for Lenders and Debtors Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jul
12
2019
Senate Passes Bill That Would Amend SCRA to Expand Spousal Lease Termination Rights Ballard Spahr LLP
 

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