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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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2018
Capital Gain Deferral and Reduction - Benefits of Investing in Opportunity Zones Jones Walker LLP
Aug
6
2015
New Illinois Law Allows for the Removal of Mechanics Liens Through Lien Bonds Much Shelist, P.C.
May
8
2012
Significant Changes to Michigan's Underground Storage Tank Program Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jun
3
2021
For Finance Lenders, The Times They Are A-Changing Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
Dec
23
2019
This Land (Was) Your Land: Mass. Appeals Court Updates Law on Adverse Possession and Prescriptive Easements Pierce Atwood LLP
Feb
15
2018
The Impact of Tax Reform on Real Estate Investment Trusts Bracewell LLP
Apr
11
2014
North Carolina Federal Judge Denied Bank of America’s Motion to Dismiss $850M Mortgage Fraud Case Bilzin Sumberg
May
28
2012
Revised Draft Regulations Postpone Compliance with California’s Nonresidential Building Energy Use Disclosure Program Mintz
Jun
16
2021
CFPB Issues Mortgage Servicing FAQs Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Apr
20
2023
Massachusetts Enacts New Law to Allow For 100% Remote Notarization Sherin and Lodgen LLP
Apr
23
2014
Port Miami and Port Canaveral Undergoing Major Expansions Bilzin Sumberg
Sep
16
2015
Do You Have A Duty To Cross The Rubicon? re: North Carolina Real Estate Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Jun
29
2021
Biden Administration Continues Fair Lending Efforts as HUD Announces Proposal to Restore the Discriminatory Effects Rule Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Jan
22
2020
Final Regulations on Opportunity Zones Proskauer Rose LLP
Apr
26
2023
Bed Bath & Beyond Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy In the United States Bankruptcy Court District of New Jersey Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C.
Mar
16
2018
S.2155 Does Not Facilitate Discriminatory Lending Ballard Spahr LLP
May
2
2014
Important Trends and Factors to Consider as Empty Nesters Downsize Bilzin Sumberg
Oct
1
2015
Difference Between a TAM and Tammy Wynette (Why No One Will Ever Confuse Them) Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Jul
17
2012
Lender Entitled to Leases, Rents and Tax Refunds Accruing Prior to Default Under Michigan Law Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jul
7
2021
Suffolk County Fair Housing Task Force Recommends Amendments to County Human Rights Law Jackson Lewis P.C.
May
9
2023
Australian Federal Budget 2023-2024 - Key Tax Measures and Instant Insights K&L Gates
May
15
2014
Signed, Sealed, Delivered, Rezoned: City of Raleigh to Begin City-Wide Rezoning and "Remapping" Process Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Oct
15
2015
Illinois Quarterly Review Newsletter Summer 2015: Subrogation Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, P.C.
Jul
27
2012
Dower - An Old Law With New Headaches McBrayer, McGinnis, Leslie and Kirkland, PLLC
Feb
12
2020
Newly Expanded CFIUS Jurisdiction Mintz
May
28
2014
New 2-Year Statutory Extension for Certain Florida Environmental & Development Permits Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Feb
26
2020
"Damaged Goods" Not Enough to Sway Third Circuit Court of Appeals Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
Jun
5
2023
Wetlands No More? U.S. Supreme Court Limits Federal Regulation of Wetlands in Sackett v. EPA Decision Foley & Lardner LLP
 

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