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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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Jun
15
2023
U.S. Supreme Court Narrows WOTUS, Limiting Scope of Clean Water Act Van Ness Feldman LLP
Jan
22
2016
FinCEN Regulations Will Aim to Discover and Prevent Money Laundering ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jul
25
2014
Positive Report for South Florida Commercial Real Estate Bilzin Sumberg
Nov
16
2012
Will Provisions to the Tax Relief Act Be Extended? Varnum LLP
Oct
25
2021
Do the Personal Representatives Get First Dibs on the Good Stuff? Nelson Mullins
Mar
30
2020
Poland: Lease Agreements at Retail Facilities of More Than 2,000 m2 in the Anti-Crisis Shield Act (Bill Adopted by Sejm) Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
26
2012
Growing the Game of Golf Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
31
2018
AFFH Suit Against HUD Dismissed Ballard Spahr LLP
Jul
5
2023
Seventh Circuit Requires Proof in FCA Suits That False Statement in Mortgage Insurance Application Caused Subsequent Default Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Mar
3
2016
Real Estate Investments by Qualified Foreign Pension Funds After the PATH Act Proskauer Rose LLP
Nov
9
2021
Revisions to Environmental Site Assessment Requirements to Impact Real Property Transactions Van Ness Feldman LLP
Apr
1
2020
Emergency Tenant Protections Take Effect in the City of Los Angeles Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Dec
17
2012
North Carolina Court of Appeals Rule 60(b) Motion Cannot Be Used to Attack An Order That a Party Failed to Appeal Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Nov
22
2021
The Value of a Right to Flood by an Additional 5.5 Feet Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Aug
25
2014
Wisconsin Supreme Court Confirms that the Mortgage Follows the Note Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Apr
6
2020
The Potential Impact of COVID-19 on Real Estate Leasing von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Oct
9
2018
Zillow Successful in Lawsuit Triggered by CFPB Investigation Ballard Spahr LLP
Jul
23
2023
Kirschner Case Update: The SEC Declines to Weigh In Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Sep
10
2014
Notice to Quit on a Tenant: Let’s Get This Straight, An URL Is Not A California Address (At Least In This Case) Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jan
9
2013
Summary of 2012 Tax Act ArentFox Schiff LLP
Jul
29
2023
Canadian Law: Make Sure Your Lease Isn't a Dealbreaker Miller Canfield
Apr
13
2016
District of Massachusetts Calls for Review of Practice of “Surrendering” Underwater Property Murtha Cullina
Apr
11
2020
Virginia Enacts Robust LGBTQ Anti-Discrimination and Civil Rights Legislation Zuckerman Law
Jan
19
2013
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau "CFPB" Releases Final Mortgage Servicing Rules Katten
Oct
31
2018
CFPB Revises HMDA Small Entity Compliance Guide Ballard Spahr LLP
May
2
2016
5 P's for Picking Right Retail Real Estate Attorney von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Jan
14
2022
D.C. Zoning Commission Responds to Two of Attorney General’s Inclusionary Zoning Proposals Goulston & Storrs
Apr
15
2020
An Act to Address Challenges Faced by Municipalities and State Authorities Resulting from COVID-19 Robinson & Cole LLP
 
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