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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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May
15
2014
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Rezoned: City of Raleigh to Begin City-Wide Rezoning and "Remapping" Process Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Nov
22
2015
Taxpayers Stand to Lose Under Chicago’s Lease Tax VDA Offer McDermott Will & Emery
Jul
27
2012
Dower - An Old Law With New Headaches McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Sep
1
2021
The CFPB’s New COVID-19 Procedural Safeguard Rules Pose Significant Compliance Challenges for Mortgage Servicers Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Mar
18
2020
HOA Boards and the Coronavirus Ward and Smith, P.A.
Jun
7
2018
CFPB expected to dismiss PHH case Ballard Spahr LLP
Jun
6
2023
Florida Enacts Pole Attachment Regulations for Electric Cooperatives Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
28
2014
New 2-Year Statutory Extension for Certain Florida Environmental & Development Permits Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Dec
18
2015
Condominium Developers Beware! New Illinois Supreme Court Decision Confirms Chicago Municipal Code Creates a Broad Private Cause of Action for Misrepresentation Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Sep
20
2021
Is Shareholder Approval Required To Mortgage Corporate Property? Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Mar
23
2020
Environmental Considerations: Identifying Risks and Protecting Assets in Turbulent Times Bilzin Sumberg
Jun
12
2014
Landlords, Make Sure Your Eviction is URLTA-Compliant - Uniform Residential Landlord Tenant Act McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Jan
6
2016
New PATH Act Changes Rules for Foreign Investment in US Real Estate and for REITs re: Real Estate Investment Trust Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Sep
4
2012
What You Need to Know About the New SEC Rule Requiring Additional Reporting by Resource Extraction Issuers Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Sep
29
2021
Charitable Health Systems and Other Owners of Tax-Exempt Property with Operations in Ohio Should Prepare for Upcoming Changes to Real Property Tax Exemption Laws Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Jan
23
2016
Residential Real Estate Marketing Services Agreements: Not Worth the Regulatory Risk Poyner Spruill LLP
Aug
6
2018
Six Years Ago, I Said This Was A Mistake And Now The Legislature Agrees Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Jul
3
2014
Mortgage Prequalification versus Preapproval McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Feb
12
2016
FIRPTA Tax Withholding Set to Increase Effective February 16, 2016 Mintz
Mar
31
2020
Considerations for Office Tenants: Part I - Delivery and Rent Commencement Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Sep
4
2018
CFPB Provides Additional Guidance on HMDA Partial Exemption Ballard Spahr LLP
Jul
11
2023
Global Banking Regulators Plan to Develop Short-Term Climate Scenarios Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Jul
17
2014
Choice of Entity Is Important for Budding Businesses McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Mar
4
2016
Personal Property Exemption Denials should be Appealed ASAP Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP
Nov
6
2012
The "Golden Rules" of Negotiating Retail Leases von Briesen & Roper, s.c.
Jul
19
2023
First Criminal Syndicated Conservation Easement Trial Begins this Week Polsinelli PC
Jul
30
2014
Merger between Trulia And Zillow Has Some Concerned, Others Not McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Mar
21
2016
Distressed Assets in Connecticut: What to Know Before Jumping In Murtha Cullina
 
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